Dengue fever affects 50 million people, with no cure in sight. But maybe prevention could work instead: Scientists have found a way to get mosquitoes sick with a bacteria that prevents them from carrying the disease.READ»
By giving male mosquitoes a case of intense infertility (and counting on the females to not notice anything, um, missing from the experience), scientists hope they can prevent a second generation of bugs from spreading malaria.READ»
In perhaps the weirdest malaria-related development yet, scientists announced this week that they're close to being able to produce genetically modified, malaria-fighting mosquitoes. READ»
Oh, not that Buzz. This Gates WMD (weapon of mosquito destruction) obliterates mosquitoes--one by one--and the Malaria they spread in developing nations.READ»
Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»
