April 2018

The curious tale of how crocodiles farmed for designer leather handbags are helping to develop human anti-arboviral vaccines

Most residents of industrialised nations in temperate climatic zones know mosquitoes to be an irritant; those blood-sucking pests that can blight a summer barbeque or family picnic. However, for people living in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, mosquitoes carry the threat of transmission of pathogens responsible for debilitating and often life-threatening blood-borne infectious diseases (Randolph and...

Author(s): Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson