What do recent findings on insect sentience and welfare mean for vector research and control? In the field of public health, we conduct a variety of experiments and studies on insects, such as mosquitoes, to advance vector-borne disease research. However entomologists’ variable knowledge and a...

BugBitten's latest blog from @scianouk.bsky.social looking at the recent findings on insect sentience - what implications will this have on vector control? go.nature.com/47jeJ1S

Global Change, Pest Invasions, and Migration: Challenges for Rural Communities.

📅 Friday, October 17th, 2025
⏰ 13:00 PM CET | 14:00 PM GMT+1 | 09:00 AM EST
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The event will feature presentations by Antonio Biondi and Dr Samira Abuelgasim Mohamed

Molecular compatibility of malaria parasites in mosquito vectors Malaria parasites use a protein called P47 to survive inside mosquito vectors and evade their immune defences. By adapting P47 to local vectors, they ensure compatability and transmission, making P47 ...

this week on BugBitten - Daniel Parsons writes about the Molecular compatibility of #malaria parasites in #mosquito vectors - discussing a paper in Nature Communications @natureportfolio.nature.com
@danielparsons.bsky.social @springernature.com
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Seasonal abundance and climatic determinants of Anopheles vectors in Sri Lanka: its implications in the malaria post-elimination era - Malaria Journal Background Sri Lanka has been malaria-free since 2012, yet the risk of malaria re-introduction is high during the post-malaria elimination phase due to influx of infected individuals from endemic coun...

Seasonal abundance and climatic determinants of Anopheles vectors in Sri Lanka: its implications in the #malaria post-elimination era malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Guardians of the earth: can the soil be ‘vaccinated’ to protect against nematode pathogens? Adding nematode collagen and chitin to soils could shape the microbiome, selecting for those microbes with the ability to fight these pathogen

Can the microbiome of soils be shaped 'by vaccinating the soil' to protect against pathogenic nematode? #worldmicrobiomeday

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Don't forget - MSF Scientific Days meeting on 22nd May - #malaria #vaccines are one of the topics discussed at the meeting. Here is a paper (published in May) in the journal that could be relevant to discussions malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @MSFsci

Malaria Journal The leading journal on malarial research, Malaria Journal serves the community interested in malaria in its broadest sense. By supporting research in the ...

It is World Malaria Day - Alas, for many, malaria is an EVERY DAY problem. We have put together a selection of recent papers looking at malaria elimination or eradication from a global or local perspective.
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