Building the better bug
Article Abstract:
Health experts have adopted a novel technique for preventing the spread of infectious diseases through the integration of genetic material to disease-carriers. Adding specific DNA materials to mosquitoes tends to inhibit the infective ability of pathogenic viruses.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
Care and treatment, Genetic aspects, Communicable diseases, Mosquitoes
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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A better mosquito net
Article Abstract:
A suggestion that better-designed mosquito nets would be easier to use in sub-Saharan African countries and hence be more effective in protecting people from malaria than at present is presented.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2008
Health aspects, Methods, Prevention, Africa, Malaria, Mosquito control
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2008
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Subjects list: Diseases
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