A Portland State University-led research team has developed a novel chemical compound that shows promise for the treatment ...

A novel compound developed over 15 years of research has demonstrated unprecedented activity against liver, blood and sexual ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle that appears to be crucial for reproduction. This is important because ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle that appears to be crucial for reproduction. This is important because ...

It's a bit hard to realise that something as small as a mosquito might ruin your whole day, or even kill you. Malaria is one of those illnesses that everyone has heard of and immediately worries: Can ...

The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020. In young children and pregnant women living in areas where the disease is ...

Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control ...

In 1967, Austrian–Brazilian immunologist Ruth Nussenzweig made a momentous discovery. By blasting malaria parasites with radiation, she could weaken them. When injected into mice, these feeble ...

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

Malaria remains a major global health concern. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended two vaccines for use ...