
This startup fights malaria by releasing more mosquitoes
Diptera.ai believes that the key to culling disease-carrying mosquito populations is by unleashing carefully sorted, sterilized male mosquitoes.

Diptera.ai believes that the key to culling disease-carrying mosquito populations is by unleashing carefully sorted, sterilized male mosquitoes.

Pilot project in Africa used Zzapp artificial intelligence to identify and help manage mosquito breeding habitats.

Israeli startup’s AI platform tailors and monitors location-specific antimalarial strategies; also won the People’s Choice Award in the competition.

IBM’s AI XRPIZE finalist Zzapp Malaria analyzes satellite images to identify malaria risk areas, and then treats them. It’s already working in Africa.

Israel’s Senecio is testing its high-tech system for sorting, packaging and delivering sterile male mosquitos in the millions over infested areas.

New study by Israeli, Irish and Australian researchers points to a possible defense in the battle against this deadly disease.

Ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25, ISRAEL21c reports on a new approach that could lead to a non-refrigerated vaccine against parasitic diseases.

Parasight diagnostic platform can detect malaria and ID the species in less than 4 minutes, using machine learning and computer vision.

Free eye surgeries, AIDS and malaria prevention, cancer screenings, equipment donations, public health education among the ways Israel helps.

Israeli scientists develop a novel method to suppress malaria parasite’s virulence genes so that it cannot evade the immune system.

Developing African nations depend on Israeli technological, humanitarian, medical, ecological and agricultural advances in virtually every aspect of life.

Experts believe the multipronged approach that wiped out the disease in pre-state Israel could be applied to African countries today.

Hebrew University researchers discover how the deadly malaria parasite evades the immune system.
Hebrew University scientists genetically alter fast-growing tobacco to produce a natural compound known to fight drug-resistant malaria.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have come up with a novel technology for manufacturing an anti-malaria drug in tobacco. Professor Alexander Vainstein — from the