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Outwitting nature’s greatest killer

Posted 7th December 2017

Scientists deploy new weapons to eradicate an age-old enemy: Mosquitoes

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How Homing Endonucleases can be used to cut DNA

Posted 21st November 2017

The Stoddard Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA uses a combination of biochemistry, structural biology, and protein engineering to create custom-specificity enzymes which cleave genomic…

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A day in Bobo-Dioulasso

Posted 18th October 2017

Most mosquito species have a flight range of 1-3 miles. In November 2016, a particular strain of anopheles mosquitoes flew from London, where they were born, to Italy, where they were…

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The long journey of mosquitoes – Insight from London

Posted 13th September 2017

It is a mild and cloudy Tuesday morning in London. The streets are busy with crowds of families and tourists queueing to enter the museums in South Kensington. Little of…

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New Partnership for African Development workshop

Posted 8th August 2017 by Dr Jonathan Kayondo

Here at Target Malaria, one of the projects researching on genetic approaches to controlling malaria vectors, we believe that co-development is an essential value of our project. The technology that…

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Terni Open Days

Posted 5th July 2017

Even if malaria has been eliminated in Italy almost fifty years ago, we should be aware of the persistence of this problem in many other countries. Malaria still remains one…

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Dr. Abdoulaye Diabaté give us an insight into Target Malaria’s team work in Burkina Faso

Posted 16th June 2017 by Dr. Abdoulaye Diabaté

We are very enthusiastic about the new phase of the project we are working on in Burkina Faso. It’s the first time that a modified mosquito has been imported to…

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SciDev, GM drive against malaria: Treading a fine line, April 2017

Posted 10th May 2017

An international group of scientists is pushing a groundbreaking DNA editing programme known as “mosquito gene drive” for a long-term solution to the spread of malaria in Africa.

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Stat News, In a remote West African village, a revolutionary genetic experiment is on its way — if residents agree to it, March 2017

Posted 10th May 2017

BANA, Burkina Faso — This small village of mud-brick homes in West Africa might seem the least likely place for an experiment at the frontier of biology.

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Wired, Illustrated experiment: modifying mosquitoes to save millions of lives, March 2017

Posted 10th May 2017

Malaria, a disease transmitted by a type of mosquito called Anopheles, kills 500,000 people every year, most of them in Africa. But Andrea Crisanti, professor of molecular parasitology at London’s…

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