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African scientist, designer partner to fashion anti-malaria garment that wards off bugs

African scientist, designer partner to fashion anti-malaria garment that wards off bugs | Science News | Scoop.it
A Cornell University scientist and designer from Africa have together created a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease estimated to kill 655,000...
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HHMI -- Life Cycle of Malaria Parasite in Human Host

This amazing animation, developed with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shows exactly what happens when a malaria-carrying mosquito bites a human host. The parasite enters the bloodstream, multiplies in the liver cells, and is then released back into the bloodstream, where it infects and destroys red blood cells.

Brice Gottesman's curator insight, September 19, 2014 1:33 PM

The parasite enters the bloodstream, multiplies in the liver cells, and is then released back into the bloodstream, where it infects and destroys red blood cells.

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How text messaging can help control malaria

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Dejan Zurovac and colleagues from the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya discuss six areas where text messaging could improve the delivery of health services and health...
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Scientists Identify Key to Malaria's Invisibility Cloak | MedIndia

Scientists Identify Key to Malaria's Invisibility Cloak | MedIndia | Science News | Scoop.it
One of the important molecules that directs malaria parasite to employ its invisibility cloak to hide from the immune system has been identified by scientists.
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