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I had heard
that Yvonne's work doesn't stop at the borders of the UK,
so I went to see her in her state of the art laboratory
to find out how world changing her studies could prove to be.
How much of a problem is malaria in this day and age around the world?
It's still a massive problem,
the third biggest killer in the world after heart disease and cancer.
And we're talking about 1.3 million deaths every year.
Yvonne now believes that her project
can reduce the impact of malaria worldwide.
So the work you're doing here right now,
and we're crushing up these little mosquitoes,
which I've got to say
is quite satisfying, isn't it?
Well, absolutely.
I've bitten by them quite a lot.
But the work you're doing here
could change the lives of millions of people around the world.
That's really what we're aiming at,
actually the ultimate product
of this huge global initiative is actually a hand-held DNA,
what we call a DNA bar-coder.
People that were actually doing the spraying in the fields
would be able to look there and see
if there were any mosquito larvae,
just be able to squash that mosquito onto a plate
and they would get an ID.