WorldLEISH 2017: A Post-Doc’s Perspective
The 6th World Congress on Leishmaniasis (WorldLEISH 6) was the first conference I attended as a fully-fledged scientist (PhD complete and first post-doc underway). I… Read more »
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Blood feeding on “Investigator’s arms” reveals the role of light in suppressing mosquito blood feeding
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame University, USA, acted as food for mosquitoes during experiments which shed light on the effect of manipulating light… Read more »
Could carbamate insecticides save the day?
A field-based study investigates the tenet that insecticide resistance within a mosquito population may fall if the insecticide is replaced by one with a different… Read more »
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Does your sushi contain parasites?
The increase in the popularity of eating raw fish in sushi and sashimi dishes has been blamed for a parallel increase in cases of… Read more »
Tracking dengue transmission in Thailand
How to use genetics and serology to understand the spread of dengue infections.
What’s up with Zika?
Below, Krisztian Magori provides an update on the situation with Zika virus, the knowledge that we accumulated on it in the last… Read more »
Vaccine hunters dig deep into schistosome biology
The search for vaccine targets against one of the world’s worst parasites has gone internal. Rather than look for vaccine… Read more »
Springtime in Scotland with the British Society for Parasitology
For the first time ever, the BSP held its 3-day annual spring meeting in the city of Dundee.
Males have higher parasite burdens than females. Can they cope?
The Pyrenean chamois has been used to investigate the consequences of the higher parasite burdens experienced by males compared… Read more »
Schisto Gist: Worming Our Way in the Field to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases
On the northern shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, communities are blighted by schistosomiasis despite 10 years of on-going… Read more »
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