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With all the attention focussed on combating the spread of COVID-19 it's easy to forget the other health challenges that could affect us all.
This insect's unique reproductive biology could lead to new ways to control the species in the environment – and prevent the deadly sleeping sickness it spreads to people.
Although there have been global efforts to eliminate parasites, some parasites and vectors will have survived attack because they have evolved resistance.
Perhaps because we all need sleep, we have an enduring interest in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, which causes a constant irrepressible need for sleep.
New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.
After a decade of research, an international team decoded the genes of the tsetse fly – the transmitter of trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. Human trypanosomiasis is a widespread tropical disease…
Since mid-December the nascent South Sudanese state has collapsed into inter-ethnic violence, sparked by a skirmish within the country’s Presidential Guard. At least 1,000 people have been killed and around…
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Professor of Sleep Medicine and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and malaria researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of African and Development Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Research Fellow in African Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Group Leader, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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Graduate Teaching Assistant in Biology, University of Utah
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Senior lecturer, Newcastle University
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Research Officer, Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis
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Researcher, Kenya Medical Research Institute
