Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Evolving malaria mosquitoes getting harder to control
Anopheles malaria mosquitoes in Africa and Latin America are evolving in response to human activity, studies in both continents have found.
Dec 4, 2020
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Copy-number variants in insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes
Researchers from LSTM, working alongside colleagues from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, have used whole genome sequencing to understand copy-number variants (CNVs) ...
Jul 26, 2019
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Scientists map the genome of a dangerous malaria vector mosquito
An international collaborative of researchers has completed work on the physical mapping of the genome of one of the malaria vectors in Central and South America—the malaria mosquito Anopheles albimanus. The map opens a ...
Jan 16, 2017
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Scientists unlock genetic secret that could help fight malaria
A group of scientists, including one from the University of California, Riverside, have discovered a long-hypothesized male determining gene in the mosquito species that carries malaria, laying the groundwork for the development ...
Mar 29, 2016
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Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4B toxin kills Anopheles gambiae, a principal vector of malaria
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), led by Dr. Lee Bulla, have characterized a protein produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti), which is highly toxic against Anopheles ...
Jun 5, 2013
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Immune system 'circuitry' that kills malaria in mosquitoes identified
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have, for the first time, determined the function of a series proteins within the mosquito that transduce a signal that enables the mosquito to fight off infection ...
Jun 7, 2012
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Wolbachia bacteria reduce parasite levels and kill the mosquito that spreads malaria
Wolbachia are bacteria that infect many insects, including mosquitoes. However, Wolbachia do not naturally infect Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the type that spreads malaria to humans. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
May 19, 2011
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