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Imperial academic puts community at the heart of malaria elimination project

Posted 7th December 2017

Professor Austin Burt has been awarded a President’s Medal for his work engaging the public in malaria-control projects across sub-Saharan Africa.

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Announcement and call for applications – Gene Drive training course

Posted 5th July 2017

The Pan-African Mosquito Control Association will be hosting a short course on Gene Drive, entitled “Novel Genetic Control strategies: considerations for responsible research”. For more information on the course and…

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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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The Scientist , Using gene drive to limit the spread of malaria , January 2017

Posted 10th May 2017

Introducing genetic changes into mosquito populations could be key to effective malaria control.

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Science Magazine, “Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory”, July 2015

Posted 25th August 2015

Multiple strategies are needed to ensure safe gene drive experiments.

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BBC, “GM lab mosquitoes may aid malaria fight”, June 2014

Posted 4th August 2015

Scientists have created mosquitoes that produce 95% male offspring, with the aim of helping control malaria. Flooding cages of normal mosquitoes with the new strain caused a shortage of females…

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Sky News “ New GM Mosquito ‘Could Help Defeat Malaria’, June 2014 (broadcast and online)

Posted 4th August 2015

Scientists believe a new strain of mosquito that produces almost entirely male offspring could turn the tables in the fight against malaria.

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Al Jazeera News, Breakthrough claimed in malaria eradication, June 2014 (broadcast and online)

Posted 4th August 2015

UK scientists think genetic modification will help check female population of mosquito species that spreads the disease.

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