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MIT Holding, Inc., a Savannah, Ga., pharmaceuticals distributor has come out with an alternative in fighting against diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and West Nile with its PROVECTOR 'flower'. The conventional methods used in fighting these...
Since time immemorial, all of us know that mosquitoes transmit malaria. But, science has progressed to such an extent that today; mosquitoes are being bred to prevent malaria. It's not a conundrum. The GM insect carries a gene that prevents infection by..
The menace of drug-resistant diseases is increasing in bounds. Tonsillitis to typhoid fever was being fought against with antibiotics, such as penicillin for more than 50 years! But, the rogue-gallery of these bacteria is rapidly growing resistance...
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Disarming bacteria, antibiotic, antibiotic resistant bacteria, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, malaria, ear infections, bacteria DNA, displacin, plasmids, Technology
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are discovered with a target site, which could help develop pesticides that are not toxic only to the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, but also other mosquito species.
This new pesticide will not affect humans and other...
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Mosquito, malaria, mosquito target site, Safer pesticide, effective pesticide, mosquito-borne disease, Mayo Clinic, cysteine, arginine, PLoS ONE, German cockroach, Public Library of Science, mosquito species, Technology
Do you know that mosquitoes use the carbon dioxide exhaled by people to identify a potential food source? But, what help these help these insects detect carbon dioxide? Recently, the fruit flies are found with two molecular receptors that help such...
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