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Team:EPF Lausanne/Project
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| + | Our projects aims to help stopping the propagation of malaria. To do so, we chose to act on the mosquito. Indeed, if we prevent the mosquito from being infected by malaria, it won't be able to transmit the parasite to healthy humans. | ||
| + | Our idea is to engineer asaia, a bacteria that is naturally present in the mosquito's intestinal tract. This bacteria would express an immunotoxin to kill the plasmodium and thus prevent the mosquito infection. | ||
Revision as of 12:38, 2 September 2010
Overview
Our projects aims to help stopping the propagation of malaria. To do so, we chose to act on the mosquito. Indeed, if we prevent the mosquito from being infected by malaria, it won't be able to transmit the parasite to healthy humans. Our idea is to engineer asaia, a bacteria that is naturally present in the mosquito's intestinal tract. This bacteria would express an immunotoxin to kill the plasmodium and thus prevent the mosquito infection.
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