Pulling malaria from mosquitoes to fight disease
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 15:56
in Biology & Nature
(AP) -- Think your job's tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour. Gently, no smushing allowed. Malaria parasites lurk in these mosquitoes' salivary glands, and a small company on the outskirts of the nation's capital needs them unharmed for a dramatic test - attempting the first live vaccine to fight malaria.