New NUS research programme zooms in on mosquito saliva to fight dengue

A S$10 million research programme fronted by NUS and Duke-NUS Medical School will be set up to understand how mosquito saliva helps in disease transmission. The scientists, led by Prof Kini Manjunatha from the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS Faculty of Science, believe that they can cripple dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses by making the body resistant to mosquito saliva, so that it will no longer be able to spread the diseases efficiently.

• The Straits Times, 15 April 2016, Science, pB17