News tagged with blood parasite
Genetic code cracked for a devastating blood parasite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have cracked the genetic code and predicted some high priority drug targets for the blood parasite Schistosoma haematobium, which is linked to bladder cancer and HIV/ AIDS and causes the insidious ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Scientists identify new class of antimalarial compounds
An international team led by scientists from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) and The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a family of chemical compounds that could lead ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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A new target to inhibit malaria and toxoplasmosis infection
Maryse Lebrun, Research Director at Inserm, and her fellow researchers at the Laboratoire Dynamique des interactions membranaires normales et pathologiques (CNRS, France), have characterised a protein complex ...
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Malaria parasites use camouflage to trick immune defences of pregnant women
Copenhagen University Hospital and the University of Copenhagen have discovered why malaria parasites are able to hide from the immune defences of expectant mothers, allowing the parasite to attack the placenta. The discovery ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Researchers discover biochemical weakness of malaria parasite -- vaccine to be developed
Every year, 10,000 pregnant women and up to 200,000 newborn babies are killed by the malaria parasite. Doctors all around the globe have for years been looking in vain for a medical protection, and now researchers from the ...
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Scientists find genetic basis for key parasite function in malaria
Snug inside a human red blood cell, the malaria parasite hides from the immune system and fuels its growth by digesting hemoglobin, the cell's main protein. The parasite, however, must obtain additional nutrients ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Scientists identify most proteins made by parasitic worm
A team led by Thomas B. Nutman, M.D., of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has completed a large-scale analysis of most of the proteins produced ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Malaria's weakest link
A group of researchers from EPFL's Global Health Institute (GHI) and Inserm (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, the French government agency for biomedical research) has discovered that a ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Malaria parasite caught red-handed invading blood cells
Australian scientists using new image and cell technologies have for the first time caught malaria parasites in the act of invading red blood cells. The researchers, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Malaria-infected cells stiffen, block blood flow
Although the incidence of malaria has declined in all but a few countries worldwide, according to a World Health Organization report earlier this month, malaria remains a global threat. Nearly 800,000 people ...
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Teasing out malaria's genetic secrets
Every year, malaria infects more than 250 million people, and more than 1 million die from the parasitic disease. For decades, doctors have treated malaria with chloroquine — an effective, inexpensive ...
Oct 18, 2010 |
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New tool to map malaria developed
Malaria kills an estimated 1 million people each year, but humans aren't the only animals under attack. Birds also contract the disease through mosquito bites. SF State biologists have been studying malaria ...
Oct 15, 2010 |
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Malaria's newest pathway into human cells identified
Development of an effective vaccine for malaria is a step closer following identification of a key pathway used by the malaria parasite to infect human cells. The discovery, by researchers at The Walter and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Researchers find metabolic pathway in malaria parasites; possible drug targets
A newly described metabolic pathway used by malaria-causing parasites may help them survive inside human blood cells. The finding, by researchers supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Alternative pathway to malaria infection identified
Discovery of a key red cell molecule used by the malaria parasite gives renewed hope for an effective vaccine in the future, according to an international team of researchers.
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Jun 17, 2010 |
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