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Malaria

public health

How best to behead a mosquito

Published Fall 2019

Engineer Russell Taylor and a group of students design a device to make it easier for biotech company Sanaria to develop a malaria vaccine / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Global health

Studying beyond the bench

Published Jan 11, 2019

Graduate student Jordan Hoffman traveled to Zambia as part of Global Health Establish Field Placements to study mosquito behavior and malaria vector control

Malaria

Sequencing a motherline

Published July 30, 2018

First-ever sequencing of mitochondrial DNA for An. funestus mosquito could yield new avenues for combating malaria

Global health

Fewer malaria nets, lower costs, more protection

Published July 10, 2018

Center for Communication Programs distributes insecticide-treated bed nets to schoolchildren to supplement regular distribution campaigns

Byte-sized bug

A mosquito emoji takes flight

Published Feb 8, 2018

The mosquito emoji is among the 157 new characters coming to your smartphone this summer

Pockets of intense precipitation in red and yellow are seen over a map of northern South America

Public health

An early warning system for malaria

Published Oct 23, 2017

Using satellite and population data, researchers hope to give public health officials more lead time

Promising anti-malaria strategies detailed

Published Sept 28, 2017

In separate studies, Hopkins researchers test bacteria that suppresses development of malaria parasite, genetic modification that boosts mosquito immune systems