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malaria

A Bitcoin on top of some pills

Executium on Unsplash.

Could blockchain technology protect patients from counterfeit medication?

Not so fast. We should be wary of trying to science our way out of large-scale health issues

Simon Spichak
An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China.

Center for Disease Control via Wikimedia Commons

Researchers create an effective RNA vaccine for malaria

Tech similar to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines might prevent one of the world's deadliest diseases

Marnie Willman
A mosquito, Aedes aegypti, drinking blood

Via Wikimedia

You should be excited that scientists are releasing 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes this year

Texas and the Florida Keys will see the release of GM insects in a plan to reduce disease transmission

Lila Westreich
micrograph of the wolbachia bacterium

Wikimedia Commons

Wolbachia bacteria stop mosquitos from spreading viruses

You may have never heard of Wolbachia, but these bacteria could save us from dengue and malaria

Marnie Willman
Culex mosquito larvae in water

Culex mosquito larvae in water

 James Gathany, CDC from Wikimedia Commons

A new malaria vaccine made from the rodent malaria parasite is effective in humans

It reduced parasite load in clinical trial volunteers by 95%

Rita Ponce
close up of a mosquito perched on a leaf

 Photo by Syed Ali on Unsplash

Allison J Matthews

 Photo by Katherine Hanlon on Unsplash 

Alternative medicine could treat our maladies, but we have to study it

It is sorely lacking in rigorous scientific research

Song-My Hoang
Flooded streets in a town in PR in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

 Sgt. Jose Diaz-Ramos from the U.S. Dept. of Defense

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

Bugs like it hot, and evolve faster when there's lots of carbon dioxide

Max G. Levy
An enlarged view of the head region of a female Anopheles gambiae mosquito

  James Gathany/CDC 

Saliva is just what we needed to create a new malaria vaccine

The mistake mosquitos made? Leaving their spit behind

Hannah Thomasy

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Vaccines aren't yet using our immune system's full potential

The most important invention in medicine could save even more lives

Joshua Peters