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Synthetic biology researcher

Developing countries face up to synthetic biology challenges

As commercial synthetic biology production gathers speed, there are growing calls for greater regulation, reports Yojana Sharma.

27 April 2012 | EN | ES

Mosquitoes overcoming best defence against malaria

Mosquitoes are growing resistant to pyrethroids, the only WHO-approved insecticides used in bednets.

Source: Nature

12 July 2011 | EN

Counterfeit drugs: Facts & figures

Priya Shetty explores the tools and partnerships that help the public health community counter the threat of counterfeit medicines.

30 March 2011 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Girl receiving oral polio vaccine

Disease eradication: where are we at now?

Thirty years since the eradication of smallpox, we are yet to beat polio and malaria, and scientists are discussing new courses of action.

Source: Science

14 January 2011 | EN

Glow in the dark mosquitoes

Will GM mosquitoes end dengue and malaria?

While great advances have been made in the lab, GM mosquitoes are still a long way from being airborne, reports Katherine Nightingale.

5 August 2010 | EN | ES

Cupping in China

Integrating modern and traditional medicine: Facts and figures

Traditional and modern medicine have much to offer each other despite their differences. Priya Shetty assesses an uneasy relationship.

30 June 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Climate change and insect-borne disease: Facts and figures

Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

9 September 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Climate complexities stoke disease controversies

Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.

9 September 2009 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

The pros and cons of GM mosquitoes

A proposal for tackling dengue fever has caused controversy because it would involve releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild.

Source: Newsweek

30 June 2009 | EN

Massive potential in miniature microscopes

A tiny solar-powered microscope with no lens could be a cheap and disposable alternative for malaria diagnosis

Source: Nature

8 June 2009 | EN

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs)

Rapid diagnostic tests: The way forward?

Rapid diagnostic tests potentially present a quick, easy-to-use solution for improved malaria diagnosis. But are they the way to go?

25 September 2008 | EN

Zambia sets an example in malaria control

Researchers in Zambia are trying to eradicate malaria in rural areas, reduce deaths and set an example in malaria control.

Source: Nature

6 March 2008 | EN | 中文

Jack Githae

Turning plants into pills in Kenya

Traditional healers are joining forces with plant chemists in Kenya to develop antimalarials isolated from plants, reports Tatum Anderson.

13 December 2007 | EN

Fake and genuine drugs are hard to tell apart

Resistance spreads: malaria in South-East Asia

Jill McGivering and Ed Cropley report on how fake drugs and poor education increase resistance to antimalarials in South-East Asia.

Source: BBC and Reuters

12 June 2007 | EN | 中文

Mass treatment could wipe out malaria

Island trial for China's malaria mass treatment

Chinese researchers hope to trial a 'mass treatment' approach to malaria on an African island, reports David Lague.

Source: International Herald Tribune

8 June 2007 | EN | 中文

Manufacturing of artemisinin-derived drugs in China

China's malaria wars: the battle over monotherapy

The debate goes on over China's ongoing production of malaria monotherapy, which is thought to promote drug resistance. Jane Wu reports.

1 May 2007 | EN | 中文

Two ring-form <i>Plasmodium vivax</i> trophozoites inside a red blood cell

Bottlenecks slow Ethiopia's fight against malaria

Ethiopia is working hard to combat malaria, report Julie Clayton and Kennedy Abwao, but delays and gaps in the system still threaten lives.

11 October 2006 | EN

A Kenyan doctor in a malaria ward

Kenya's paradox: top research but malaria still rages

Wandera Ojanji reports on why so many Kenyans die of malaria, despite their nation producing some of the world's top research on the disease.

Source: The Standard (Kenya)

8 March 2006 | EN

Selling bednets in Cameroon

Rolling out long-life mosquito nets: Africa's challenge

Jon Snow reports from Africa on efforts to increase production of improved insecticide-treated bednets that last for years not months.

Source: The Guardian

6 January 2006 | EN

Mosquitoes can transmit diseases by feeding on human blood

Married to malaria

Marcos Pivetta interviews a husband-and-wife team who have spent decades researching malaria together.

Source: Revista da Fapesp

14 January 2005 | EN