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TWiP 186: Not rationing rationality

  • August 1, 2020
  • Tagged as: Babesia microti, babesiosis, cytokinesis, electron microscopy, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium falciparum, tick, West Nile Virus

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Elder Gardener Feeling Poorly, and discuss the three-dimensional ultrastructure of Plasmodium falciparum during cytokinesis.

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TWiP 184: The hunter gets captured by the game

  • June 6, 2020
  • Tagged as: Anopheles, COVID-19, cyclospora, endosymbiont, malaria, microsporidian, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, watery diarrhea, wolbachia

Dickson, Daniel and Vincent solve the case of the Safari Goer With Watery Diarrhea, and explain how a microsporidian endosymbiont of Anopheles mosquitoes might impair the transmission of malaria.

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TWiP 172: A painless lesion

  • June 14, 2019
  • Tagged as: cutaneous leishmaniasis, malaria, Metarhizium, mosquito, painless lesion, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, sandfly, spider venom, transgenic, transgenic fungus

The metacyclic TWiPomastigotes solve the case of the Child With a Painless Leg Lesion, and reveal how to kill mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus.

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TWiP 125: Third time’s a charm

  • January 21, 2017
  • Tagged as: Anopheles, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium falciparum, sporozoite, vaccine
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The TWiPonderers solve the case of the Timber Worker with Severe Shaking Chills, and describe an experimental malaria vaccine comprising attenuated sporozoites produced by genetic engineering.

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TWiP 114: Plant potions perturb Plasmodium

  • August 12, 2016
  • Tagged as: Anopheles, case study, eukaryotic, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, plant sap, Plasmodium falciparum, sugar source, trichomonas vaginalis
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The TWiP troika solve the case of the Female from the Bronx, and reveal how feeding on different plants affects mosquito capacity to transmit malaria.

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TWiP 100: Driving past a milestone

  • January 9, 2016
  • Tagged as: Anopheles stephensi, Cas9, case study, CRISPR, gene conversion, gene drive, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, population modification
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The TWiP trifecta solves the case of the Woman from Bolivia with Belly Pain, and discuss a method for population modification of malaria mosquitoes using a Cas9-mediated driver gene.

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TWiP 98: Resistance is not futile

  • October 30, 2015
  • Tagged as: amoeba, Anopheles, Balamuthia, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, pyrethrin, pyrethroid, resistance, RNAseq
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The TWiP-lets reveal Balamuthia infection in the Children from Peru, and discuss resistance to pyrethroids uncovered by RNA sequencing of Anopheles mosquitoes.

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TWiP 64: Three new ways to prevent malaria

  • December 19, 2013
  • Tagged as: antimicrobial peptides, chemotherapy, glycosaminoglycan, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, PI(4)K, Plasmodium

Vincent and Dickson review three novel approaches to antimalarial chemotherapy.

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TWiP 50: Antagonism in the mosquito midgut

  • February 16, 2013
  • Tagged as: complement, factor H, lysis, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium

Vincent and Dickson reveal how malaria parasites avoid lysis by complement in the mosquito.

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TWiP 34: Up against the Wolbachia

  • December 13, 2011
  • Tagged as: aedes aegypti, Anopheles, filaria, malaria, mosquito, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium, symbiosis, wolbachia

Vincent and Dickson discuss control of malaria and filariasis with the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.

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