Our Mission:
We are a group of high school students from Connecticut that attend the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Center that are looking to decrease the deaths of humans caused by Malaria. Our goal is to eliminate the parasite Plasmodium that causes Malaria, without causing any harm to the vector, the Anopheles Mosquito. This is possible through the use of the benign fungus originally found in soil, Metarhizium Anisopoliae, and genetically modifying it using two proteins found in scorpion venom. When this fungus is genetically modified, it only attacks the Plasmodium in the mosquito and does not wipe out an entire species... therefore having a responsible project.
This genetically modified fungus can be put into a spray that can be sprayed on malaria nets, screens , and other places. This spray can be mass distributed all over the world to many different countries, decreasing the death rate of Malaria victims every time it is sprayed. We call this spray Malare-Away.
Malaria is a huge problem, especially in third world countries in Africa and the Middle East. Malaria causes millions of deaths worldwide every year. Every minute a child under the age of 5 dies from Malaria. Our team, Malare-Aware, is here to help reduce these deaths and eventually have a world without Malaria.
A little spray goes a long way
We are a group of high school students from Connecticut that attend the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Center that are looking to decrease the deaths of humans caused by Malaria. Our goal is to eliminate the parasite Plasmodium that causes Malaria, without causing any harm to the vector, the Anopheles Mosquito. This is possible through the use of the benign fungus originally found in soil, Metarhizium Anisopoliae, and genetically modifying it using two proteins found in scorpion venom. When this fungus is genetically modified, it only attacks the Plasmodium in the mosquito and does not wipe out an entire species... therefore having a responsible project.
This genetically modified fungus can be put into a spray that can be sprayed on malaria nets, screens , and other places. This spray can be mass distributed all over the world to many different countries, decreasing the death rate of Malaria victims every time it is sprayed. We call this spray Malare-Away.
Malaria is a huge problem, especially in third world countries in Africa and the Middle East. Malaria causes millions of deaths worldwide every year. Every minute a child under the age of 5 dies from Malaria. Our team, Malare-Aware, is here to help reduce these deaths and eventually have a world without Malaria.
A little spray goes a long way
click here to view our proposal!
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Right now there is about as much global interest in malaria as I've ever seen. Can it be sustained? I don't know. But it will need to be if we want to get anywhere in this fight.
~ Brian Greenwood