Team:EPF Lausanne

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<font color="3300FF"> '''Our project:''' Our team wants to help stopping the propagation of malaria, a disease which has a death toll of over a million per year.  
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<font color="3300FF"> '''Our project:''' Our team wants to help stopping the propagation of malaria, a disease which has a death toll of over a million per year. <br>
Malaria is transmitted by the parasite Plasmodium whose life cycle is well-studied: The mosquitoes are the vectors which propagate the infection to humans. The infected human will then again infect mosquitoes consuming a blood meal which then completes the cycle.  
Malaria is transmitted by the parasite Plasmodium whose life cycle is well-studied: The mosquitoes are the vectors which propagate the infection to humans. The infected human will then again infect mosquitoes consuming a blood meal which then completes the cycle.  
Bacteria of the genus <i>Asaia</i> have been proven to be stably associated to a malaria propagating mosquitoe, <i>Anopheles stephensi</i> [1]. We plan to take advantage of this and use engineered Asaia to block the Plasmodium cycle.  
Bacteria of the genus <i>Asaia</i> have been proven to be stably associated to a malaria propagating mosquitoe, <i>Anopheles stephensi</i> [1]. We plan to take advantage of this and use engineered Asaia to block the Plasmodium cycle.  

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Our project: Our team wants to help stopping the propagation of malaria, a disease which has a death toll of over a million per year.
Malaria is transmitted by the parasite Plasmodium whose life cycle is well-studied: The mosquitoes are the vectors which propagate the infection to humans. The infected human will then again infect mosquitoes consuming a blood meal which then completes the cycle. Bacteria of the genus Asaia have been proven to be stably associated to a malaria propagating mosquitoe, Anopheles stephensi [1]. We plan to take advantage of this and use engineered Asaia to block the Plasmodium cycle.

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