Sentences with phrase «made against malaria»

Or look at the strides made against malaria: Over the past decade, the number of cases has been reduced by 17 percent, and the number of deaths has dropped by 26 percent.

This release comes at a time when the latest wave of antimalarial drug resistance, including the frontline drug, artemisinin, is threatening gains made against malaria.

Not exact matches

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

While the world has made incalculable gains in the struggle against mosquito - borne diseases, new challenges — like resistance to artemisinin treatments for malaria — are now threatening to turn back the clock.

Intelligent design became a scientific reality this year with the report that researchers had custom - made a lifesaving microbe — one that helps make a much - needed drug against malaria.

Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, one of the lead authors of the paper, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, said: «We can now say, unequivocally, that genetic variations in this region of the human genome provide strong protection against severe malaria in real - world settings, making a difference to whether a child lives or dies.

Brian Foy, a medical entomologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, believes that makes it a prime candidate in the fight against malaria.

VIP technology bypasses the requirement of the host to make its own immune response against malaria, which is what occurs with a vaccine.

«What makes it particularly interesting is that the region we can show is associated with protection happens to be right up against a set of genes we know are related to how malaria invades the red blood cell,» study author Dominic Kwiatkowski of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics told The Post.

In order to move forward they made pioneering technological breakthroughs as well, all of which have resulted in the most promising vaccine candidate against malaria to date.

In the last decade, tremendous progress has been made in the fight against malaria.