As a child in Nigeria, the rainy season stands out in Joshua Raji’s memory. The rainy season is mosquito season. With mosquitoes, malaria usually followed. Raji is very familiar with the brutal life ...

Little is known about how malaria invades one red blood cell after another because it happens so quickly. In a new study, researchers used laser optical tweezers to study interactions between the ...

Researchers have developed a novel approach to analyzing malaria parasite genomes to reveal how antigenic variation arises. Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European ...

Sexual biology may be the key to uncovering why Anopheles mosquitoes are unique in their ability to transmit malaria to humans, according to researchers. "Our study is the first to reveal the ...

Although vector-control strategies such as bednets can reduce the spread of malaria, drugs remain crucial weapons for preventing infections as well as reducing transmission, symptoms and mortality ...

Population-genetics approaches provide important insight into the causes and spread of human malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. New technological and informatics advancements are being leveraged ...

In a serendipitous turn of events, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and partners have discovered a malaria parasite, Plasmodium odocoilei, in up to 25 percent of white-tailed deer ...

Molecular biologists and engineers who study how malaria causes red blood cells to stiffen have found that a model of a malaria-infected red blood cell may give rise to better ways to treat the ...

Malaria remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, caused by Plasmodium parasites that replicate rapidly within humans and mosquitoes. Understanding how these parasites divide and multiply is ...

Malaria is a major health problem in many parts of the world; nearly half a million people die from malaria, and another 220 million are infected every year. Mosquitoes spread the disease through ...

Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his University of California, Berkeley, laboratory, professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true. On April 11, the ...

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by a parasite that invades one red blood cell after another. Little is known about this infection process because it happens so quickly, potentially ...