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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how

  • Written by Jacob A Tennessen, Research Scientist in Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University
image_Anopheles darlingi_, a key carrier of malaria, is rapidly evolving resistance to insecticides.Romuald Carinci and Pascal Gaborit/Duchemin lab/Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, CC BY-SA

The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted...

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