'Mosquito smoothie' innovation boosts future malaria vaccine potential:
A faster method for collecting pure malaria parasites from infected mosquitos could accelerate the development of new, more potent malaria vaccines.
The new method, developed by a team of researchers led by Imperial College London, enables more parasites to be isolated rapidly with fewer contaminants, which could simultaneously increase both the scalability and efficacy of malaria vaccines.
The parasite that causes malaria is becoming increasingly resistant to antimalarial drugs, with the mosquitoes that transmit the disease also increasingly resistant to pesticides. This has created an urgent need for new ways to fight malaria, which is the world's third-most deadly disease in under-fives, with a child dying from malaria every two minutes.
Journal Reference:
Joshua Blight, Katarzyna A Sala, Erwan Atcheson, et al. Dissection-independent production of Plasmodium sporozoites from whole mosquitoes [open], Life Science Alliance (DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202101094)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @10:34AM
There are indications that different RNA vaccine platforms may render this moot. A number of Malaria vaccines are showing real promise and the improvements in the platforms stability has been impressive. In not that many years, there might actually be an effective vaccine against Malaria that can be deployed cheaply where it is needed. Here's hoping yet another parasite finds itself on the extinct species list in the next decade.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @11:28AM (2 children)
The Global Elites aren't happy just getting you to eat bugs, now they want you to drink mosquito smoothies too. Fuck that.
(Score: 1) by js290 on Tuesday June 22 2021, @02:41PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 23 2021, @03:22AM
That is a small price to pay to live in a pod of your own.
(Score: 1) by js290 on Tuesday June 22 2021, @02:33PM