The Autumn Statement was supposed to be a celebratory moment for the coalition government — with its deficit - reduction
strategy nearing completion and the 2015 election on the horizon, pre-election giveaways could begin.
The mosquito's 260 million DNA base pair sequence — together with the human genome and the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum now
nearing completion — should open up new
strategies for controlling the deadly disease, which kills some 1.5 million people each year, mostly African children.