SEATTLE: He keeps them in warm, comfortable bug dorms, feeds them on
meals of human blood with the occasional sugar water snack and lives in
awe of their killing power.
Seattle-based research scientist Stefan Kappe says mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals in the world.
Which is probably why when his laboratory colleagues slice their heads off with minuscule needle-like scalpels and squeeze them with tweezers to extract early forms of the malaria parasite from their saliva glands, he feels no concern about cruelty to animals.
Kappe has spent his working life trying to figure out how this tiny malaria-carrying insect can inflict so much death and disease on humans, and what he and his team can do to stop it. Read More
Seattle-based research scientist Stefan Kappe says mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals in the world.
Which is probably why when his laboratory colleagues slice their heads off with minuscule needle-like scalpels and squeeze them with tweezers to extract early forms of the malaria parasite from their saliva glands, he feels no concern about cruelty to animals.
Kappe has spent his working life trying to figure out how this tiny malaria-carrying insect can inflict so much death and disease on humans, and what he and his team can do to stop it. Read More
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