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Breaking the cycle of malaria transmission
Description: A researcher studying genetic changes in natural populations of mosquitoes has been able to isolate a mosquito protein critical to the malaria parasite's life cycle. That finding could one day lead to a treatment that doesn't affect just individuals, but entire communities by blocking the transmission of the disease. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: http://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135733&org=NSF&from=news
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Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 7/23/2015
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