Mosquito-Transmitted Disease Content / Mosquito-Transmitted Disease Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Receives $10M for Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence /health/news/uc-davis-receives-10m-pacific-southwest-center-excellence 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis to tackle mosquito and tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease and West Nile Virus, as part of the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases. September 08, 2022 - 10:17am Amy M Quinton /health/news/uc-davis-receives-10m-pacific-southwest-center-excellence Identifying Sites for Testing Modified Mosquitoes as a Strategy to Eradicate Malaria /blog/identifying-sites-testing-modified-mosquitoes-strategy-eradicate-malaria <p>Over the past several years molecular geneticists have been researching the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to mosquitoes that transmit malaria. This parasitic blood disease inflicts an enormous health burden throughout the tropical world. The numbers are hard to grasp: 229 million infections annually with over 440,000 deaths, mostly children and mostly in Africa.</p> August 18, 2021 - 10:20am Andy Fell /blog/identifying-sites-testing-modified-mosquitoes-strategy-eradicate-malaria