How genetically modifying mosquitoes could strengthen the world's war on malaria
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par Shüné Oliver, Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Jaishree Raman, Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
It’s been 126 years since British medical doctor Sir Ronald Ross discovered that mosquitoes in the Anopheles family are primarily responsible for transmitting malaria parasites between vertebrate hosts.
Since his discovery, mosquitoes have been found to carry and transmit many other diseases that pose a major threat to public health.
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vendredi 18 août 2023
