The FDA-approved drug nitisinone can quickly kill Anopheles mosquitoes fed human blood containing the drug, suggesting it could be explored as a new endectocide for mosquito control and malaria prevention. Learn more in @ScienceTM: https://t.co/1qgAIg3wuJ

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News podcast: Richard Smith and Isabel Quiroga on the UK’s first uterus transplant birth; @PGeldsetzer1 on the shingles vaccine and dementia; @AAcostaserrano and @PKghaith on a mosquito-killing drug; and Eleanor Scerri on early seafaring humans. https://t.co/9WgtDspo6b

Safe human drug can poison mosquitoes https://t.co/YgvSt1J9cO Many thanks to Chris Smith and the @NakeScientists for the short podcast about our recent publication on #Nitisinone & #Anopheles #mosquitoes

Muchas gracias @elenagomezdiaz y @Carlos_Chaccour por los comentarios y difusión

Glad this is finally out. Using pharmacokinetic modeling we show that #nitisinone, an FDA-approved drug 4 #Tyrosinemia & #Alkaptonuria, kills #Anopheles mosquitoes, outperforming #Ivermectin. Grateful to all primary author’s & fantastic collaborators! https://t.co/GP1PqP5GTp

This work would not have been possible without the expertise and dedication of Zachary Stavrou-Dowd and Lee Haines, as well as the fruitful collaboration of Rosemary Lees and colleagues from the Liverpool Insect Testing Establishment (LITE).

Our findings support development of a new type of insecticides that specifically target the mosquito Tyr pathway without affecting insect pollinators

https://t.co/A4llTvb7AS We show that #nitisinone kills both susceptible and insecticide-resistant Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes through cuticular absorption.

“Cultivemos la ciencia por sí misma, sin considerar por el momento las aplicaciones. Éstas llegan siempre, a veces tardan años, a veces, siglos. Poco importa que una verdad científica sea aprovechada por nuestros hijos o por nuestros nietos” Ramón y Cajal➡️ https://t.co/ha1bYlvCEA

Welcome to Stephanie Blandin and Alvaro ⁦@AAcostaserrano⁩ who lead the vector module ⁦@MBLBoP⁩. Transgenic tsetsemosquitoes? Everything is possible now that the English even win in penalties.

We are recruiting a Postdoc! Interested in trypanosomes, proteomics or gene regulation? Join our lab in @BLSLancasterUni on a project studying heat-shock response, closing 21st July, details at https://t.co/FWmrh8tUbv @BSPparasitology, @WiParasitology #Postdoc

🏅Congratulations to @Jquintanalcala who has been awarded the @BSPparasitology President's Medal for 2024! The award recognises ambitious, rising stars in the field, well on their way to world-leading status within the research community!

New PhD on #Chagas Disease in Glasgow, Lancaster, Ecuador and Antwerp. Fab team, great training, #genomics #singlecell #evolution #adaptation with @McCulloch_Group @MickUrbaniak @BiottofnI https://t.co/vIp28NT2ZN please RT !

Please RT: Applications are open at https://t.co/w8YNKaqCVk for the 2024 Biology of Parasitism course @MBLBoP @MBLScience with new deadline: January 3rd !! Come join us for an amazing summer of learning and camaraderie, exciting lectures, lab practicals and fun excursions.

***New Post Doc Opportunity*** Working on #Chagas Disease genomics, evolution, adaptation, immune escape 🦠🦠. With @DujardinBiomed @BiottofnI @McCulloch_Group @CISeAL_PUCE open to all nationalities https://t.co/yzGQSOPgiM deadline 11th Jan. Please RT !

It will be an exciting and fun project. Come and join us in Liverpool!

My lab at SDSU is hiring a new postdoc! Really cool project looking at bystander effects of infection, using Trypanosoma cruzi as a model. Mass spectrometry experience not required - this is a great chance to expand your skills!

We're hiring. We're looking for a group leader(s) (up to and including Full Professor) with interests in Vector: Pathogen interaction. Join us you know it makes sense... https://t.co/z0CBSl5ADE

We are recruiting! Please RT