The malaria disease is caused by a Plasmodium protozoal parasite, post proboscis penetration by an infected Anopheles mosquito. Here we discuss Malaria vaccine
Fruitaryan payback
June 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At long last there has been a truly European epidemic, or ‘Eurodemic’ (an outbreak of truly EU-ge proportions), to use a term originally coined by Broughton-D’Lirium.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 034
October 15, 2010 By 4 Comments
Time to challenge that cerebral cortex and put on those ‘mental’ dancing shoes as we trip the light fantastic of medical trivia, and lift the latch on the cage of the tiger of tease…so fasten your brastraps in anticipation of the Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…and try not to think too much!
Your Management Team May Be Parasites
September 21, 2010 By 3 Comments
Management has synonymously been associated with bad decisions, selective cost cutting, raising it’s own salary and attempting to rob others of their ideas. This perception has led people to view managers as parasites, which according to new scientific data may be more correct than we previously thought.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 023
July 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Yay…it’s Friday. Time to challenge that cerebral cortex and put on those ‘mental’ dancing shoes as we trip the light fantastic of medical trivia, and lift the latch on the cage of the tiger of tease…the Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…
Crazy Bug Hunter 007
June 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Anton Breinl led expeditions to Brazil and survived yellow fever. He had also survived an accidental infection with trypanosomes, using an experimental medication to treat himself and thus securing a place among that small group of CBHs who have used themselves as laboratory animals.
Crazy Bug Hunter 006
May 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Fleming’s role in the discovery and subsequent development of penicillin is well-known parable of the importance of serendipity in medical research. Fewer people know anything about the Scots bacteriologist’s earlier discovery of lysosyme or his work on the bacteriology of traumatic wound infection. It is this last topic that earns Fleming his status as a crazy bug hunter.
Syncopated Juxtaposition and the Nature of Cell Science
April 9, 2010 By 1 Comment
Sit back, relax and prepare to be swept away by cell biologist Dirk Pacholsky’s visualization of “Szamár Madár” – Aaron Funk’s interpretation of Sir Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
Crazy Bug Hunter 004
March 29, 2010 By 4 Comments
Ronald Ross had a passion for hunting down bugs not restricted to Plasmodium species. While pursuing malaria in India, his work was interrupted by a cholera epidemic in Bangalore. He entreated public health officials to introduce a sanitation programme, but lacked the charisma, the contacts or the clout to put knowledge into practice. Like many of the Victorian gentlemen bug hunters who had been early adopters of Pasteur’s germ theory, he was ahead of his time
Crazy Bug Hunters 002
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In this year of Darwin anniversary celebrations, the name Alfred Russel Wallace has surfaced frequently. He was the co-author with Charles Darwin of the first scientific paper on natural selection (Linnean Society, 1st July, 1858), though in subsequent years Darwin’s reputation overshadowed Wallace’s. The evidence supports the view that Alfred Russel Wallace came to his conclusions independently from Darwin as a result of his travel in the Amazon basin and subsequently in Southeast Asia, where he sought evidence in support of the emerging theory of transmutation of species.
