Friday, January 22, 2010

Pinoy develops new Malaria vaccine

Filipino entomologist and biologist at John Hopkins University Hospital Rhoel Dinglasan discovered a new vaccine against Malaria. This one is called TBV or transmission-blocking vaccine. It actually works by preventing the Malaria-carrying mosquitos from spreading it.

Check out the story on Times magazine.



The Korea Herald also runs a story on this.
This is how a Pinoy scientist looks like. Here's his pic I stole borrowed from Daphne's.



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