LONDON (AP) - In a cramped London laboratory filled with test tubes, bacteria and mosquitoes, scientists are trying to engineer a new weapon in the battle against malaria: a mutant fungus.
For years, Angray Kang at Westminster University and colleagues have been testing whether they could genetically tweak a fungus to kill the malaria parasite carried by mosquitoes.
Now they've found that in lab experiments, mosquitoes exposed to the fungus show a sharp drop in levels of the parasite. If it works that way in the wild, that should make it harder for the disease to infect people.
Kang said the mutant fungus could be sprayed onto walls and bednets like insecticides and could be made for a comparable cost.
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Nice development :)
Hope it helps finding a definitive cure.
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Some good news which I hope will lead to an effective weapon in the fight against malaria. No idea what I did, but I have two accounts at Malaria Control: the other one shows 204,695 credit.......
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Some good news which I hope will lead to an effective weapon in the fight against malaria. No idea what I did, but I have two accounts at Malaria Control: the other one shows 204,695 credit.......
If you take your question about 2 accounts to the Number Crunching forum I think we can help you straighten it out. But yes fungus sounds like a good thing if it works!!
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Thank you, I will do that.
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