Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research joined partners at Duke University, Florida Atlantic University and Montana State University to publish a study providing clear evidence that ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, there were approximately 229 million cases of malaria around the world, of which 409,000 were fatal. Now, researchers at the Francis Crick ...

Groundbreaking studies published today in the New England Journal of Medicine and PLOS Medicine have found large numbers of malaria parasites hiding in the human spleen where they actively multiply in ...

The first detailed map of individual malaria parasite behavior across each stage of its complicated life cycle has been created by scientists. Researchers used advanced single-cell technology to ...

The development and implementation of a malaria vaccine would constitute a major breakthrough for global health. Recently, numerous new candidates have entered clinical testing, following strategies ...

Scientists have discovered a new target in their fight against the devastating global disease 'malaria' thanks to the discovery of a new protein involved in the parasite's life cycle. The research has ...

An essential switch in the life cycle of the malaria parasite has been uncovered by researchers in England, Germany and Holland. An essential switch in the life cycle of the malaria parasite has been ...

The fever experienced by people with malaria exposes parasites to high temperatures within blood cells. This heat can lead to ...

The malaria parasite is a master of adaptation. To complete its life cycle, the parasite must be transmitted from a mosquito to a human and then back to a mosquito again. Over millions of years of ...

An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for Structural Systems Biology and Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in ...

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 ...