University of Maryland Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/university-of-maryland/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 30 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 University of Maryland Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/university-of-maryland/ 32 32 Breakthrough in the fight against the spread of malaria https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/breakthrough-in-the-fight-against-the-spread-of-malaria/ Thu, 30 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/breakthrough-in-the-fight-against-the-spread-of-malaria/ There’s been a dramatic breakthrough in the fight to stop the spread of malaria which kills more than 400 000 people a year – mostly in Africa. Scientists have genetically engineered a spider fungus that develops a venom that kills mosquitos that bite humans. The transgenic fungus produces a naturally occurring pathogen that kills 99% […]

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]]> There’s been a dramatic breakthrough in the fight to stop the spread of malaria which kills more than 400 000 people a year – mostly in Africa.

Scientists have genetically engineered a spider fungus that develops a venom that kills mosquitos that bite humans.

The transgenic fungus produces a naturally occurring pathogen that kills 99% of mosquitos that bite humans.

The tests undertaken at a giant mosquito sphere, build of mosquito netting, in Burkina Faso are not designed to eradicate malaria but rather to kill the mosquitos carrying the disease.

Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine says the results of the tests are very good and the process developed could save many lives.

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