We studied the sounds of mosquitoes’ mating rituals – our findings could help fight malaria

By Joerg T Albert, Professor of Sensory Biology & Biophysics, UCL
Alex Alampounti, Research Fellow, Biophysics, UCL
Marcos Georgiades, PhD Candidate, Neurobiology and Biophysics, UCL

In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that almost half the world’s population was at risk of malaria, while some 627,000 people died from the disease.

Although a malaria vaccine may soon be available (the WHO recommended one for children last year), malaria is just one of several mosquito-borne diseases. And the total number of mosquito-related…

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