Tagged: Malaria

Why GM mosquitos might be our best bet to stop insect-borne disease. - Southern Genes

Peter Dearden • May 25, 2015 •

• dengue,
• genetic modification,
• insect control,
• insecticides,
• Malaria

Oxitec's GM mosquitos may be a very effective way to control insects that carry human disease … Read More

Monday Micro – sloths a source of new drugs?! - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jan 20, 2014 •

• antibiotics,
• antimicrobial,
• Breast cancer,
• chagas,
• fungi,
• fur,
• Malaria,
• Panama,
• PLOS One,
• Sarah Higginbotham,
• sloth

As a parent, I have watched the Ice Age movies more times than I care to admit. I quite like Sid the sloth but had no idea just how important his descendants could be in our fight against disease. Sloths are slow-moving tree-dwelling mammals found in the jungles of central and south America. They … Read More

ASAP Awards Finalists announced - Building blogs of Science

Fabiana Kubke • Oct 02, 2013 •

• ASAP awards,
• Biodiversity,
• hiv,
• Malaria,
• open access,
• Open drug discovery,
• open education,
• open science

(Cross-posted from Mind the Brain) Earlier this year, nominations opened for the Accelerating Science Awards Program (ASAP). Backed by major sponsors like Google, PLOS and the Wellcome Trust, and a number of other organisations, this award seeks to “build awareness and encourage the use of scientific research — published through Open Access — in transformative […] … Read More

Changing Planet, Changing Health - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • May 23, 2011 •

• Africa,
• Book reviews,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• dengue fever,
• Health,
• Malaria

Interconnectedness is a major theme of Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens our Health and What We Can Do about It. Jeffrey Sachs describes the book in his preface as “a scientific detective story of the first order, told with brilliance and relish by one of the world’s great ecological detectives”. The [...] … Read More

Friday's Factoids and Quirky Quotes - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Aug 13, 2010 •

• Andrew Ure,
• anorexia,
• Diet,
• enodsymbiont,
• faeces,
• Frankenstein,
• History,
• Malaria,
• Rainfall,
• salamander,
• transposase,
• William Stark

They’re fun, eh? And the staple diet of cable TV science… Yes, I’m lowering myself to this.* Sigh. It’s Friday, a good time for something digestible in one bite. Here’s a collection from recent reading: most short, a few a little longer. This is the opening paragraph of Wikipedia’s pithy and … Read More