Michael Riscoe, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology at Oregon Health & Science University, is involved in a multi-institutional study published in Nature. The study demonstrates that combining drugs that kill the malaria-causing parasite with insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce infection rates. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)
Researchers have identified a type of chemical compound that, when applied to insecticide-treated bed nets, appears to kill the malaria-causing parasite in mosquitoes.
Published today in the journal Nature, the multi-site collaborative study represents a breakthrough for a disease that continues to claim more than half a million lives worldwide every year. A lab at Oregon Health & Science University played a key role, and National Institute of…