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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a statewide malaria alert for Florida as cases of the mosquito-borne disease are being detected in the Sunshine State. According to the Daily Mail, the alert followed two residents of Florida’s Sarasota County contracting malaria. Local health authorities said the two individuals were diagnosed between […]

Health officials said the cases were both in Sarasota County and diagnosed between June 25 and July 1. The disease has not been detected in the US since 2003.

Health officials are concerned after five cases of the disease were detected for the first time in two decades, with four in Florida and one in Texas.

Jason Rasgon, professor of entomology and disease epidemiology, has been named Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology. 

A new method has allowed researchers to conduct the first gene knock-out and knock-in edits on cockroaches and may extend to many other insects.

This week's characters also include a podcaster with a weird take about texting, a doctor who is monitoring the traffic situation and a mayor seen out clubbing with Cara Delevingne.

US researchers, who identified the gene editing method, said it could enable them to alter parts of a ticks DNA used to carry and transmit bacteria that causes diseases.

 E-Mail IMAGE: A broad coalition that includes UC San Diego scientists sets commitments for field trials of powerful gene drive technology. The multidisciplinary group encourages trials that are safe, transparent and ethical. view more  Credit: Stephanie Gamez, UC San Diego The modern rise of gene drive research, accelerated by CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, has led to transformational waves rippling across science. Gene drive organisms (GDOs), developed with select traits that ...