26/02/2016 Hilary Hurd

Your ancestry determines which of 4 clades of mites live within your hair follicles.

12/02/2016 Bradley van Paridon

Serious disease causing parasites are often transmitted to humans by small aquatic snails. These snails are dependent on suitable habitat to breed and spread. Perhaps one control strategy lies in the use of natural snail predators that already have a taste for infected snails.

12/02/2016 Krisztian Magori

As a follow-up to last weeks post on genetic control of mosquitoes, I invited Derric Nimmo, the head of public health research at Oxitec, for a friendly chat about the experiences and potential of the Oxitec solution to control the mosquitoes transmitting Zika virus, dengue and chikungunya in Brazil.

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05/02/2016 Krisztian Magori

Genetic control methods, such as those containing Wolbachia, or the Oxitec solution, are ready to be deployed against Aedes aegypti to control dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus all at once in the Americas.