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 ...

DALLAS – March 25, 2008 – International investigations of an organism that one UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher calls a “silly little green scum” have led to key insights into the basic ...

Malaria parasites know good times from bad and plan their offspring accordingly, scientists have found, in a development that could inform new treatments. Malaria parasites know good times from bad ...

Malaria parasites know good times from bad and plan their offspring accordingly, scientists have found, in a development that could inform new treatments. Scientists have found that the reproduction ...

Mosquitoes that lose multiple legs after contact with insecticide may still be able to spread malaria and lay eggs. Leg loss is a common outcome of insecticide exposure, and guidelines dictate that ...

A protein within the malaria parasite that seems to be crucial to its survival as it develops within a mosquito could present a new therapeutic target to prevent malaria in people. Malaria infects ...

Malaria has plagued people for millennia. It is referenced in ancient texts and has even been detected in Egyptian mummies that are more than 5,000 years old. During the twentieth century alone, ...

WEHI researchers have visualised a key protein complex in malaria parasites for the first time, uncovering a new target for next-generation vaccines that could help stop the disease from spreading.

Dr. Raj Panjabi is former White House Senior Director for global health security and biodefense and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a 2016 TIME 100 ...

The world has made progress toward eliminating malaria, with 44 countries and one territory (La Réunion) certified as malaria-free. Egypt, where malaria has existed since at least the time of the ...