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Ugandan student develops mosquito repellant from sour milk

The death of Jovia Kisaakye’s brother from malaria and the family’s struggle to sell fresh milk led to the new product

Malaria cases could increase drastically during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rethinking the mosquito net

Disease-spreading mozzies may be getting wise to our best defences, but science is fighting back with a new kind of chemistry. But will advances be able to outpace nature?

Yes

Yes, edit our genes – but do it cautiously

We can now control our species genetic future but this power is ‘awesome and terrifying’

The doublesex gene targeted in the experiments is deeply “conserved”, meaning that is formed tens or even hundreds of millions of years ago and is today shared by many insects with only minor variations.

With genetic tweak, mosquito population made extinct

2016 marked the first time in over two decades that malaria cases did not fall year-on-year

Key institutes keep keen watch on Zika for Africa

The Ebola outbreak on the continent showed how countries with poor health systems are unfit to fight epidemics.

Link to baby deformity slows race to find Zika vaccine

“We can use the technologies from other flaviviruses to get the product made by the end of 2016”

Malaria check is in the male

A new technique involves injecting mosquitoes with a gene that causes mostly male offspring, leading to a decline in population as females disappear.

Fluorochemicals could be used to treat malaria.

New Malaria therapy could be a breakthrough

A new therapy – a combination of drugs made from the artemisinin plant with older medicines – could transform the fight against malaria.

Fluorochemicals could be used to treat malaria.

Mosquitoes: Inside the blood shed

One of the difficulties in breeding mosquitoes is how to feed them. But malaria expert Maureen Coetzee just rolls up her sleeves and gets stuck in.

Over 200-million people contract malaria each year. The M&G got up close to the Anopheles mosquito

Staring down the silent killer

Over 200-million people contract malaria each year. The M&G got up close to the Anopheles mosquito, the pest that spreads the disease.

Charles Taylor trial hears of murder, rape and mutilation

A reverend who survived a massacre and was held captive by rebels in Sierra Leone testified on Tuesday in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor about seeing…