30/06/2017 Vera Unwin

A review of the McGill summer institute’s course in Global Health Diagnostics

23/06/2017 Sarah Berry

The 6th World Congress on Leishmaniasis (WorldLEISH 6) was the first conference I attended as a fully-fledged scientist (PhD complete and first post-doc underway). I attended primarily to present my research, but also to learn more about this new organism that I have begun to work on: Leishmania. I couldn’t have picked a better located… Read more »

16/06/2017 Samuel S.C. Rund

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame University, USA, acted as food for mosquitoes during experiments which shed light on the effect of manipulating light exposure on blood feeding behaviour.

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09/06/2017 Vera Unwin

A field-based study investigates the tenet that insecticide resistance within a mosquito population may fall if the insecticide is replaced by one with a different mode of action.

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02/06/2017 Hilary Hurd

The increase in the popularity of eating raw fish in sushi and sashimi dishes has been blamed for a parallel increase in cases of anisakiasis. This painful stomach infection is caused by a group of parasitic round worms belonging to the genus Anisakis.

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