How Nagana is carried by tsetse flies
Researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed new details on how the animal disease Nagana is spread by tsetse flies in Africa.
May 17, 2018
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Surprising discovery—how the African tsetse fly really drinks your blood
Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly as part of ongoing work on the animal diseases it carries.
Parasite insight may help curb sleeping sickness
New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause infection could affect the severity and spread of the disease.
Researcher publishes book on adaptive origin of zebra stripes
The distinct black and white stripes of zebras capture people's attention and imagination from an early age. But rarely are we told why zebras have those stripes to begin with.
Solving the riddle of putrid camel pee could aid millions affected by sleeping sickness
Biochemists from Trinity College Dublin have solved an old mystery as to the cause of especially smelly camel urine, with implications for the millions of people affected by African parasites called trypanosomes. These parasites ...
Fluorescent trypanosomes reveal invasion of skin and beyond following tsetse fly bites
Trypanosome parasites cause sleeping sickness in Africa. If left untreated, the infection causes coma and eventually death. A study published on July 21st in PLOS Pathogens takes a close look at what happens after an infected ...
New insect imaging technique may help victims of sleeping sickness
Researchers from the IAEA Insect Pest Control Laboratory in Vienna, Austria have employed near infrared still photographs and time-lapse video to observe the pupa of the living tsetse fly, and for the first time have watched ...
Scientists 'artificially evolve' sleeping sickness bacterium
Scientists at the University of Salford are to artificially evolve a bacterium linked to the spread of deadly sleeping sickness, African Trypanosomiasis.
Tooth enamel provides clues on tsetse flies and the spread of herding in ancient Africa
One of the most important technological advances of our species happened for the first time only in the last 12,000 years: food production, including agriculture and animal husbandry. For nearly 7 million years prior, our ...
Sleeping sickness prevention in a nutshell
Scottish scientific expertise has helped to develop a potentially transformative new method of tackling African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which poses a risk to over 70 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
