A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body.

New research found that inflammation in the body can slow down the development of malaria parasites in the bloodstream -- a discovery that may constitute a potential new strategy for preventing or ...

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 ...

An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for ...

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 ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a synthetic compound that has the potential to treat malaria and block its transmission.

Malaria is a life-threatening disease that is transferred by mosquito bites. Interestingly, a specific type of mosquito can carry the disease. The transfer of the parasite to humans travels to the ...

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 ...

In 2007, molecular biologist Thierry Diagana, head of global health biomedical research at Novartis, and his colleagues were searching for fresh drugs against malaria, medicines that the parasites had ...

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.