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Malaria

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Despite the best efforts of hundreds of researchers and many decades of work, malaria remains a scourge that affects millions of people each year. On page 959 of this issue1, Catteruccia et al. describe an approach that should at least speed up understanding of the physiology of the mosquito carriers of the disease and their interaction with the malaria parasite.

Most research to date has centred on the parasite and its development in the human host, but a viable vaccine is yet to materialize. Furthermore, direct control of mosquito populations is hampered by the spread of insecticide resistance, and attempts to control and treat the disease are commonly foiled by the emergence of drug resistance in the malaria parasites.

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Figure 1: Fluorescence in transgenic mosquito larvae.

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  1. Department of Entomology, Center for Advanced Invertebrate Molecular Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843-2475, Texas, USA
    Craig J. Coates

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