All the billions of flat, biconcave disks in our body known as red blood cells (or erythrocytes) make three basic, tumbling-treadmill-type motions when they wend their way through the body's bloodstream ferrying oxygen from ...
Soft Matter
Jun 10, 2014
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In a world first, researchers have found that a naturally occurring chemical attracts pregnant malaria-transmitting mosquitoes - a discovery which could boost malaria control efforts.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 20, 2015
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Malaria parasites, although widespread among wild chimpanzees and gorillas, have not been detected in bonobos, a chimp cousin. Reasoning that previous studies may have missed infected bonobo populations, a team led by Beatrice ...
Ecology
Nov 21, 2017
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In the Amazon Rainforest, few animals are as dangerous to humans as mosquitos that transmit malaria. The tropical disease can bring on high fever, headaches and chills and is particularly severe for children and the elderly ...
Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2017
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Scientists have developed a new technique for investigating the effects of gene deletion at later stages in the life cycle of a parasite that causes malaria in rodents, according to a new study in PLOS Pathogens. The novel ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 15, 2017
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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 succumbed to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In analyzing malaria mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa, a Cornell-led team of researchers finds evidence of two very different evolutionary paths in the immune systems of neighboring mosquito groups.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 22, 2011
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The parasites responsible for malaria seem to march to their own beat.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2020
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Along with being the hottest thing at the local multiplex, 3-D imaging has entered the laboratory as an important research tool.
General Physics
Nov 22, 2013
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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 ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 18, 2012
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