Showing posts with label Nina Fedoroff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nina Fedoroff. Show all posts

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Zika fever: our newest dread disease. What is it? Where'd it come from?

Where did Zika come from, and what can we do about it? Molecular biologist Nina Fedoroff takes us around the world to understand Zika's origins and how it spread, proposing a controversial way to stop the virus — and other deadly diseases — by preventing infected mosquitoes from multiplying.

Nina V. Fedoroff, Ph.D is Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, and Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Willaman Professor of Life Sciences, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

A TED talk by Nina Fedoroff