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The Malaria Cycle Illustrated in Pictures

In that tiny proboscis, death could well await. Malaria – caused not by mosquitoes per se but parasites carried only by the Anopheles mosquito – affects up to 500 million people every year. Of those, it kills a further one to three million individuals, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa, and is a major barrier to economic development. So what’s the story of how this deadly disease comes to infect humans?

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New Weapon Against Malaria – It’s A Sea Cucumber!

Yesterday few of us knew what a sea cucumber was or even if it had a use. Today is a new day, and today the Sea Cucumber is King. Image by Paul Fenwick and Jacinta Richardson Scientists (it’s always the scientists) have discovered that sea cucumbers produce a protein [...]

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