Malaria parasites transform healthy red blood cells into rigid versions of themselves that clump together, hindering the transportation of oxygen. The infectious disease affects more than 200 million people around the world ...
Cell & Microbiology
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When controlling mosquitoes that spread malaria, gene drives, which force genetic changes to proliferate in a population, are faster and more efficient than simply releasing mosquitoes that are immune to the parasite, according ...
Biotechnology
Dec 19, 2019
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Engineers at Duke University have developed a microscope that adapts its lighting angles, colors and patterns while teaching itself the optimal settings needed to complete a given diagnostic task.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 20, 2019
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Despite great efforts in medicine and science, more than 400,000 people worldwide are still dying of malaria. The infectious disease is transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium. ...
Biotechnology
Nov 14, 2019
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Despite humanity's best efforts to eradicate malaria, the disease struck more than 200 million people in 2017, according to the World Health Organization. Worse yet, the parasite that causes malaria is developing resistance ...
Biochemistry
Oct 16, 2019
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A new method to control the timing of gene deletion in the malaria parasite has been developed by researchers at the Crick, which could lead to better vaccines.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 7, 2019
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An international team of researchers has found evidence showing that the type of mosquito that carries malaria parasites can be carried hundreds of kilometers by the wind. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the ...
The search for new treatments to combat malaria has been hampered by the lack of validated targets on the parasite that causes the disease. In work recently published in PNAS, a team from the Drug Discovery Unit at the University ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 27, 2019
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The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects populations in some of the hottest places on earth. Current medications for that scourge—malaria—are becoming less effective as ...
Biochemistry
Sep 11, 2019
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The first detailed map of individual malaria parasite behaviour across each stage of its complicated life cycle has been created by scientists. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators used advanced ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2019
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