Scientists at Cambridge University and the University of Manchester have demonstrated that their robot scientist Eve is capable of speeding up the search for new drugs and could transform the global pharmaceutical industry. Eve is a robotic scientist developed by researchers from the Universities of Aberystwyth and Cambridge, the same team who created the robot…
Tag: Malaria
New Compound Kills Malaria in 48 Hours
Malaria is a disease that develops when a mosquito infected with a Plasmodium parasite bites a person. Once it gets into the bloodstream, the parasite invades and lives in the new host’s red blood cells. This deadly disease still claims more than half a million lives each year. A new study suggests that a promising…
This Little Sticker Works Like an Anti-Mosquito Force Field
Mosquitos were born to bite us, and aside from lighting worthless tiki candles, haplessly swatting them away, or resorting to spraying toxic DEET all over ourselves, there’s really not a whole lot we can do about it.