Hypertensive mice with abnormal red blood cells are at greater risk for developing malaria, according to a new study published ahead of print in the journal Function. Until now, the link between ...

Researchers suggest broadly reactive antibodies identified are likely to represent a common mechanism of acquired immunity to ...

Malaria is a life-threatening disease that is transferred by mosquito bites. Interestingly, a specific type of mosquito can ...

Malaria, particularly in its severe forms, remains a global health and economic burden. It causes the deaths of more than 600,000 people every year – most of them African children under five.

However, for malaria, this is not possible because the virulent proteins of the parasites that infect mice are very different from their human counterparts. The researchers came up with an ...

Scientists have identified human antibodies capable of targeting the proteins responsible for severe malaria, potentially ...

Between treating patients, she says, they voice their concerns: "'Malaria's very stubborn,'" she says they tell her. "'It's not responding to treatment.'" Namazzi is a pediatrician at Mulago ...

Like malaria, the disease is caused by a parasite ... The ticks may travel on deer, but they pick up disease by feeding on ...

A potential new way of treating cerebral malaria has been discovered by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, in a study using mice. The authors found that inhibiting a complex ...

Firstly, they immunize rabbits and mice with some of the malaria proteins to look at what antibodies — the immune proteins that identify and bind to threats in the body — the rabbit and mice ...