From the Environmental Health Institute in Singapore, Vincent speaks with Director Lee Ching Ng about their work to control viral infectious diseases, including the controlled release of mosquitoes containing Wolbachia endosymbionts to inhibit viral transmission.
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Lee Ching Ng
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Are there comparable facilities here in the US? That seems like overkill and a half, but perhaps this sort of leadership breeds literally and figuratively benefit for less well of communities with mosquito born illness.
I’m an outsider but the this podcast led me to these good reads on
Lab techniques for Dengue
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143156/
and
What the heck is NS1 anyway
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/nonstructural-protein-1
Sharing for my fellow TWiXers.
Please excuse my typos… I need to slow down.