Janet Hemingway
Janet Hemingway tells Jim Al-Khalili about forthcoming insecticide resistance developing in the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and how it could cost many lives.
Janet Hemingway, the youngest woman to ever to become a full professor in the UK, talks about her career at the frontline of the war on malaria. Whilst many researchers look for vaccines and treatments to this global killer, Janet's approach, as a trained entomologist, has been to fight the mosquitoes - the vector - which transmits the malaria parasite.
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Giant mosquitos scared the cleaner
Duration: 01:55
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- Tue 10 Jun 2014 09:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Tue 10 Jun 2014 21:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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The Life Scientific
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.
