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Frankenskeeters: Scientists Using Genetically Altered Mosquitoes to Battle Disease

(RYOT) They’ve been called “suicide mosquitoes,” dead-end bugs and even Frankenskeeters. They’re gene-altered mosquitoes, and Panama is among a growing list of countries that are testing to see whether they have a place in the public health arsenal in the war against mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever. Dengue, which isn’t well-known outside tropical regions,  Read More »

Science Can Never Rest in the War Against Emerging Pathogens

(FoodSafetyNews) The war on emerging pathogens isn’t like any others. The war on drugs might well end with a new approach. The war on terrorism might eventually wind down. But the war on emerging pathogens is different. It will never end. This conclusion is showing up fairly often in the scientific literature this year, from  Read More »

Tick by tick: Studying Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus carried by ticks

(ScienceDaily) When University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers set out to study Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, they faced a daunting challenge. The deadly virus requires biosafety level 4 containment, and it’s carried by ticks. That meant that if scientists wanted to study the transmission of the virus, they had to do something that  Read More »

Yes, This Exists: A Biohacker Hotline

(PopularScience) They range from routine to absurd: How do I put together a biolab spill kit? Is it okay to work with amphibian cells? Oh, and should I worry about the fecal samples I’ve been culturing in my bedroom and the fungus they’ve been growing? These are the sorts of questions appearing on the newly  Read More »

New Infectious Diseases like MERS Remains a Major Threat

(Time) About a week and a half ago, I was lucky enough to be walking through San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on a purely perfect northern California summer day. I was thinking what I usually think whenever I visit the Bay Area: “Why don’t I live here?” (The BART transit strike that began the next  Read More »

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