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MANILA, Philippines—Rhoel Dinglasan, an entomologist and biologist from John Hopkins University, is rocking the science world with his discovery of a new vaccine against malaria.
It prevents mosquitoes from spreading malaria if they bite someone who’s been inoculated with the vaccine, and brings the medical world a step closer to eradicating the disease.
Dinglasan’s discovery was recently featured in the Health and Science section of TIME magazine. Here are excerpts from the article.
“Traditional vaccines work by introducing a killed or weakened version of a disease into the body, where the immune system spots it and cranks out antibodies against it. Then, if a wild strain of the pathogen comes along later—one that has the power to sicken or kill—the body is ready for it. The new approach is different. Developed by Rhoel Dinglasan, an entomologist and biologist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, it would instead work within the mosquito gut.
