Scientists will attempt to find out how malaria parasites manipulate their mosquito hosts after discovering that smell could be a major factor.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 15, 2013 not rated yet 0

Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have established an inheritable bacterial infection in malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosqui ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

May 09, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 4 |

Mosquitoes bred to be unable to infect people with the malaria parasite are an attractive approach to helping curb one of the world's most pressing public health issues, according to UC Irvine scientists.

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 12, 2012 4.9 / 5 (7) 8 |

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 ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Nov 17, 2011 3 / 5 (2) 2 |

(Phys.org) —Can scientists rid malaria from the Third World by simply feeding algae genetically engineered with a vaccine? That's the question biologists at UC San Diego sought to answer after they demonstrated ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 19, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0 |

Researchers report that they have discovered - and now know how to exploit - an unusual chemical reaction mechanism that allows malaria parasites and many disease-causing bacteria to survive. The research ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Feb 15, 2010 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 16, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 5 |

The parasite that causes the most lethal strain of malaria among humans crossed the species barrier from gorillas, scientists reported on Wednesday.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Sep 22, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have discovered that the parasite that causes the most common form of malaria share the same genetic variations ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 06, 2012 not rated yet 3 |

A biology lab at Washington University has just cracked the structure and function of a protein that plays a key role in the life of a parasite that killed 655,000 people in 2010.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jan 06, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the US have noted areas of the world with the lowest average intelligence quotient (IQ) also tend to have the highest rates of infectious diseases, and suggest the energy required ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jul 01, 2010 3.8 / 5 (5) 6 |

The discovery by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a molecule that is key to malaria's 'invisibility cloak' will help to better understand how the parasite causes disease and escapes from the defenses ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 18, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A large international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious organism that triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century and now threatens this season's tomato and ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 09, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have determined a new mechanism by which the mosquitoes' immune system can respond with specificity to infections with various pathogens, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 18, 2012 not rated yet 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Melbourne shows how the malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) changes into a banana shape before sexual reproduction, a finding that could provide target ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |