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Impactful malaria science, and the trailblazers leading the fight. A podcast from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

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EXTENDED: How Scientific Collaboration Across Three Continents Turned a Problem Into a Solution

Aug 28, 2023

In 2013, on the outskirts of Madrid, GSK was gearing up to test new medicines against malaria. But they had a problem.

In this month's podcast, we're joined by Janneth Rodrigues from GSK, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena from Johns Hopkins University, and Etienne Bilgo from IRSS to share a story of collaboration that spans three...

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A Naturally Occurring Bacterium Inhibits Malaria Parasites in the Mosquito

Aug 14, 2023

A naturally occurring bacterium renders the mosquito a poor transmitter of the malaria parasite.

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Scientists often grow mosquitos in the laboratory and infect them with malaria parasites to test new drugs and explore vector control. Unexpectedly, in a lab run by GSK in Spain, mosquitoes gradually lost the...

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