January 17, 2011: A Fortnight in SC News & Research

It has been 3 weeks since the last edition, and this fortnight, the news focuses on poor decisions at the A&T State University which led to an unnecessary sports-related death, a new genetic testing kit, a new sickle cell drug acquisition merger and a shocking scandal at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute…all about sickle cell.

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December 10, 2010: This Week in SC News & Research

Researchers from the University of Chicago and Loyola University are studying the transmission of malaria by the Anopheles mosquito. The researchers are trying to inhibit the transmission of Plasmodium (the bacteria that causes malaria) by giving the mosquitoes a protein called FLVCR which will then alter the gut of the mosquito and change the molecular…

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