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Malaria Know More: Behind the Science of Gene Drive with Krystal Birungi

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Malaria No More,  2025.
Congratulations on being named a 2025 Goalkeepers Champion by the Gates Foundation! What does this acknowledgement mean to you personally and professionally as an advocate for malaria elimination? BIRUNGI: It was pretty exciting and also very validating. Malaria has been ...

Innovation under pressure: bold ideas for a changing malaria landscape

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Epstein, A., Tangena, JA.,  BMC Glob. Public Health,  3. 2025.
Innovation has never been more urgent. Encouragingly, the malaria research community is responding. Next-generation insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) [1], new indoor residual sprays (IRS) [2], and spatial emanators are reaching communities [3]. Vaccines such as R21 and RTS,S are ...

After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria

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Kai Kupferschmidt,  Science,  2025.
On 11 August, the international nonprofit Target Malaria celebrated a milestone: In the village of Souroukoudingan, Burkina Faso, its researchers released about 16,000 male mosquitoes genetically modified to produce almost exclusively male offspring. The release, the first of its ...