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
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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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Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences Laurence J. Zwiebel is part of a team of researchers at Vanderbilt and the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute who are working to understand how Plasmodium falciparium—the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 19, 2021
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A study out of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University has resulted in the discovery of a promising new antimalarial compound.
Biochemistry
Oct 27, 2021
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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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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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Researchers have shown "gene drive" technology, which spreads a genetic modification blocking female reproduction, works in natural-like settings.
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2021
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Detailed and extensive genome sequencing of a subspecies of rat-infecting malaria parasites should instruct human malaria research.
Cell & Microbiology
May 31, 2021
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Researchers have mapped in fine detail the genetic changes malaria parasites go through as they prepare to infect people.
Cell & Microbiology
May 27, 2021
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