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• Novel anti-malarial drug target identified
  

  An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have identified the first reported inhibitors of a key enzyme involved in survival of the parasite responsible for malaria. Their findings, which m more

• Sanaria Inc. and the University of Maryland College Park Awarded Collaborative, US $3M NIH Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant

  Sanaria Inc and the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) of the University of Maryland College Park announce the receipt of a multi-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the Nation more

• Why DEET Keeps Mosquitos and Other Insects at Bay
  

  For decades DEET has been successfully used to repel biting insects. Scientists from Rockefeller University, New York, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now clarified DEET’s (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) mechanism of action. The substance does more

Publications Mosquitoes

• [Report] Wolbachia Invades Anopheles stephensi Populations and Induces Refractoriness to Plasmodium Infection

  Stable inheritance of a symbiotic bacterium suppresses malaria parasites in mosquitoes. more

• Findings

  More Clues to Origins of Frog-Killing Fungus | Slow Malaria: Infect Mosquitoes more

• Exogenous gypsy insulator sequences modulate transgene expression in the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles stephensi [Applied Biological Sciences]

  Malaria parasites are transmitted to humans by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, and these insects are the targets of innovative vector control programs. Proposed approaches include the use of genetic strategies based on transgenic mosquitoes to suppress or modify vector populations. Although subst more

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