Tag: Malaria
Episode 64: Battling the Bugs – the search for creative solutions to mosquito control
Malaria – a disease transmitted between people by mosquitoes – remains a major cause of death globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. While recent efforts to control mosquitoes have been very successful in reducing malaria, particularly insecticide-treated bed nets, mosquito populations seem to be persisting. In this episode of Naturally Speaking, editors Ellen Hughes and Taya Forde are joined by Institute […]
Kampung life and mosquito vectors of disease in Malaysian Borneo
In villages across the Malaysian state of Sabah, locals are being asked to do something unusual: expose themselves to—potentially malaria carrying—mosquitoes. The person behind this request is third year PhD student Rebecca Brown. Here, Rebecca explains why and walks us through the steps of conducting her tropical field research.
Episode 38: Sparking ideas—the creative minds building bioelectronics for biologists
“Technology provides the tools and biology the problems” – Stanley Fields Episode 38: Sparking ideas-the creative minds building bioelectronics for biologists Scientific advances depend not only on novel ideas and conceptual leaps, but also to a large extent on technological advances. Most scientists use some form of technology in their daily research, […]
