The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...

T he malaria parasite is a master of adaptation. To complete its life cycle, the parasite must be transmitted from a mosquito ...

The parasite spends the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. When an infected mosquito bites a human, the malaria parasite enters the red blood ...

It's halted some of history's most powerful armies, infected several US presidents, and killed billions of humans throughout history. Malaria is the deadliest disease known to man — and it still ...

The research team had previously trialled the effectiveness of a modified malaria parasite, called GA1, that is designed to stop developing about 24 hours after infection in humans 2. But the GA1 ...

Recently, numerous new candidates have entered clinical testing, following strategies that are as diverse as the malaria cycle is complex ... that are currently in human clinical testing against ...

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 paving the way for new vaccines or treatments. Using organ-on-a-chip ...

Malaria is endemic in many parts of the developing world. It causes around two million deaths a year and has a huge impact both personally and econimically. An animated sequence describes the ...

For April 2023, Ghana become di first African kontri to approve di R21/Matrix-M vaccine, and since den, eight oda African ...

These mosquitoes carry a weakened form of the malaria parasite, designed to trigger a powerful immune response in humans ... stages of the parasite’s life cycle. “Currently licensed and ...