Cameroon Starts World’s First Malaria Vaccine Program For Children
Health officials prepare to vaccinate residents of the Malawi village of Migowi, on Dec. 10, 2019, where young children become test subjects for the world’s first vaccine against malaria. AP Photo/Jerome Delay Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. The […]
Jaws; or, how an African ray-finned fish is helping to rethink the fundamentals of evolution: New research suggests that some evolutionary constraints are the secret to success
A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa’s Lake Malawi is helping researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to refine our understanding of how evolution works. In new research published in Nature Communications, co-authors Andrew J. Conith, postdoctoral researcher in the UMass Amherst biology department, and Craig Albertson, professor of biology at UMass […]