Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
— Albert Einstein
May 20, 2013
Edward Wenger and Philip Eckhoff’s recent publication in the Malaria Journal, A Mathematical Model of the Impact of Present and Future Malaria Vaccines, studies the impact of potential malaria vaccines within the framework of the EMOD malaria model. This individual-based model couples a detailed description of the vector lifecycle with a comprehensive, mechanistic representation of [...]
May 13, 2013
Plasmodium is a genus of the Apicomplexan parasite, which was described in 1885 by Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli and is known to cause malaria. There are 200 known species of Plasmodium, of which at least 11 species infect humans, while others infect other animals including reptiles, birds, rodents, and monkeys. The Plasmodium parasite has [...]
May 6, 2013
Ben Wilson, our Optical Tuberculosis Diagnosis Project Lead, recently presented at the Optics in the Life Sciences conference on the Big Island of Hawaii. The conference brought together optics experts from around the world whose work is helping to advance biological and medical research through the use of optical technologies. Ben’s presentation focused on our [...]
April 29, 2013
Water has lots of odd properties. Normally, we think of fluids as being less dense when they get warmer. Hot air balloon rides, for example, would be much less exciting if warmer things tended to sink. However, one of the weirder properties of water is that unlike most liquids, its density doesn’t always decrease with [...]
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