# Could this laser zap malaria?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2010
- Speaker: Nathan Myhrvold
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_zap_malaria)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe.

## Lectures

1. [Could this laser zap malaria?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_zap_malaria/af1e8f422bcd), 15 min (TED's player)