Researchers who have been devoting themselves to creation of mosquitoes that cannot transmit disease are facing formidable foes: a warm reception for specious arguments and deep pocket anti-GM organizations.Plans to release GM mosquitoes in Malaysia provide a window into the opposition. Will GM mosquitoes be given a chance to improve human health?
These data suggest that exposure to AL in pregnancy, including first trimester, is not associated with particular safety risks in terms of perinatal mortality, malformations, or developmental impairment. However, more data are required on AL use during the first trimester.
This assay can be applied as an unbiased confirmatory method for the identification of morphological variants, imperfectly preserved specimens and life stages for which taxonomic keys do not allow a definitive species determination.
This season I have together with my husband been monitoring bloodsucking insects at the reindeer research station in Kaamanen, Lapland Finland (69˚ N lat.). The station is about 150 km from Barents Sea and the snow smelts in late May. The ground is frozen from October/November until May/June and the depth of the frost is 80 cm. The staff at the station is really friendly and helpful.
·Demonstrator in the department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, 2002- present.
·Junior researcher in research and training center, WHO collaborating center, Faculty of Science building, Ain Shams University, 2002- 2007.
·M.Sc. on vector control of filarial vector Culex pipiens L. 2008.
·Assoc. Lecturer at Faculty of science, Ain Shams University, Abbaisa, Cairo, Egypt 2008 - Now
·PhD student at Food Sciences and Agricultural College, KSU, KSA 2009 – Now
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SEEKING
Some of us are Seekers who ask “How? We are called Scientists. Some of us are Seekers who ask “Why?” We are called Believers. Some of us are both.
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The boy and the old man sat in the shade of their favorite Neem tree during the oppressive heat of the afternoon. “Uncle, why did the Creator make mosquitoes that swarm around our heads and spread fevers?” asked the boy.
What do data analysis and hitting mules in the head with a board have in common? Too much. Ouch!
The intelligence of a species like the protozoan we call Plasmodia is amazing. I have followed the response of patients to ACTs since their introduction a few years ago...The parasite clearance and symptomatic relief seems to be getting more sluggish with time.
IVCC and Syngenta reach key milestone in development of new insecticide for malaria mosquito control.
• Field trials show Actellic® 300CS can provide at least 8 months control of pyrethroid resistant mosquitoes
• Actellic® 300CS micro-encapsulated formulation submitted to WHOPES
• Major step forward in development of new products for malaria control
Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) is a new malaria control tool. This study investigated how protection against malaria given by SP, chlorproguanil-dapsone (CD) and mefloquine (MQ), varied with time since administration of IPTi.
