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2023 Falling Walls Prize for Science and Innovation Management
December 21 , 2023
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- Abdoulaye Diabate was awarded the 2023 Falling Walls Prize for Science and Innovation Management for his research work.
- He developed an innovative technique that can wipe out malaria-causing female mosquitoes by altering their genes.
- Malaria is generally transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes.
- Under gene drive technology, female mosquitoes are prevented from producing new female offspring by releasing genetically modified male mosquitoes in the environment.
- This would lead to the depletion of female mosquitoes, thus bringing down malaria causes throughout the continent.
- Africa shoulders the world’s largest malaria burden, with the continent constituting 96 per cent of the total 619,000 deaths worldwide in 2021.
- According to the WHO’s latest data, of those 96 per cent, 80 per cent of deaths occurred in children aged under five.
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