Health and Medicine Routine vaccinations during a pandemic – benefit or risk? Scientists used a mathematical model to work out the risks and benefits if health systems sustain their routine vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biology How can we trace malaria mosquitoes? Scientists wanted to find out if they can mark and track Anopheles mosquitoes with two dyes: rhodamine B and uranine.
Biology How does a plant make an antimalarial medicine? Scientists wanted to understand how sweet wormwood produces artemisinin – a chemical that kills malaria-causing parasites.
Health and Medicine What is the impact of COVID-19 on other diseases? Scientists created mathematical models to estimate how the measures against COVID-19 are impacting people with HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.
Health and Medicine Why do measles survivors get sicker? Scientists wanted to find out about the long-term effect of measles on the immune system.
Health and Medicine How can we help stop the COVID-19 pandemic? Researchers created a mathematical model to assess the effect of different measures against COVID-19.