Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes
A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to ...
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Rare disease drug nitisinone makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes
To evaluate how the drug affected the mosquitoes when fed ... Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, the Medical Research ...
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World-first clinical trial shows promise for transformative oral snakebite treatment
Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi and published in the journal eBioMedicine, shows that the drug, unithiol, is safe, well tolerated, and easy to administer in remote rural clinics ...
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Women are woefully under-researched—the Message project aims to redress the balance
Medical research has traditionally studied men, with findings extrapolated to women. Project founder Kate Womersley talks to Menaka Fry about her attempts to change this When Susan Cole was pregnant ...
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Joint Aspire Awards granted across the College of Medicine and Health
Several Departments and Schools within the College have been granted funding for upcoming healthcare studies.
Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone
With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected. This ...
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This Drug for Rare Diseases Makes Human Blood Lethal to Mosquitoes
In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, killed malaria-carrying mosquitoes after they fed on treated human blood — ...