{"id":133827,"date":"2022-01-10T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/swedish-lab-eyes-poisoned-chalice-in-malaria-fight"},"modified":"2022-01-10T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:23:21","slug":"swedish-lab-eyes-poisoned-chalice-in-malaria-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/swedish-lab-eyes-poisoned-chalice-in-malaria-fight","title":{"rendered":"Swedish lab eyes poisoned chalice in malaria fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swedish-lab-eyes-poisoned-chalice-in-malaria-fight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cages meshed over with women\u2019s tights and crawling with mosquitoes are stashed in a Swedish laboratory. Every day, researchers feed them beetroot juice laced with deadly toxins, part of a grand plan designed to fight malaria.<\/p>\n<p>With hopes of field trials delayed repeatedly by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers in Sweden still believe they have found the secret to a new environmentally friendly way of killing off the Anopheles species of mosquitoes that transmit <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/malaria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">malaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So hopeful are they, they have founded a company with a view to turning their discovery into a commercially viable alternative to the pesticides currently used to kill mosquitoes, but which can also harm humans and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cages meshed over with women\u2019s tights and crawling with mosquitoes are stashed in a Swedish laboratory. Every day, researchers feed them beetroot juice laced with deadly toxins, part of a grand plan designed to fight malaria. With hopes of field trials delayed repeatedly by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers in Sweden still believe they have found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}