Antibodies are among the most frequently used tools in the biosciences, as they enable researchers to identify molecules. However, many commercial antibodies are not specific enough, with the result that they do not recognize ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 8, 2022
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A new method to combat malaria, which sees the disease turn against itself, could offer an effective treatment for the hundreds of millions of people infected globally each year as the efficacy of current antimalarial drugs ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2022
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Revolutionary 3D images have enabled researchers to understand how new anti-malaria compounds kill malaria parasites, paving the way for the next generation anti-malarial treatments.
Cell & Microbiology
May 16, 2022
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Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 6, 2022
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Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease, killed more than 620,000 people worldwide in 2020. Jeopardizing the survival of Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite, is one way to control the spread of this deadly disease.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 11, 2022
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Malaria remains one of the biggest global public health challenges. It kills a young child every two minutes, more than any other infectious disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2022
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Understanding how malaria parasites evolve after a human is bitten by an infected mosquito is very difficult. There can be billions of individual parasites in a patient's bloodstream and traditional genetic sequencing techniques ...
Evolution
Oct 13, 2021
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A major tool against malaria in Africa has been the use of rapid diagnostic tests, which have been part of the "test-treat-track" strategy in Ethiopia, the second most-populated country in Africa. But researchers studying ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2021
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Bird species around the globe are suffering and dying from a type of malaria and, while these strains are not infectious to humans, they're spreading quickly through global transmission hotspots.
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2021
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A gene called PfAP2-HS allows the malaria parasite to defend itself from adverse conditions in the host, including febrile temperatures, according to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2021
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