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.
Cases of West Nile virus highlight the urgency of dealing with disease-carrying mosquito populations, which are only growing due to climate change.
Mosquitoes currently kill around one million people a year. That number will rise as climate change lengthens mosquito season, and increases their geographical range.
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.
Ben Gurion University biologists have discovered that a bacteria in the gut of the mosquito can be activated to poison the larvae
Israeli startup Bzigo is developing a phone-sized detector for flying insects that pinpoints their location, even in the dark, so you can zap them.
Forrest Innovations has a new way of sterilizing male mosquitos, while Senecio has a new way of delivering them onsite.
Israel’s Senecio is testing its high-tech system for sorting, packaging and delivering sterile male mosquitos in the millions over infested areas.
While the world seeks a medical intervention, Biofeed’s no-spray green product targets the insects directly.
Hebrew University researchers discover how the deadly malaria parasite evades the immune system.