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Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell

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Title: Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell
Author: Owens, Ann Marie Deer
Description: Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Combating the spread of malaria by manipulating the mosquitoes' sense of smell is the object of an ambitious research project, led by Vanderbilt University, that has been selected to receive $8.5 million as part of the Grand Challenges to Global Health." The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made this award to combat the more than one million deaths each year. Dr. Larry Zweibel of the Biological Sciences Dept. is trying to develop precise chemical compounds to interfere with mosquitoes' sense of smell.
Subject: Malaria
Mosquitoes as carriers of disease
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
LCSH Subject: Vanderbilt University
Zweibel, Larry
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/351
Date: 2005-06-30

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