News tagged with plasmodium
Scientists design first robot using mould
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first ever biological robot using mould.
Aug 30, 2009 |
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Easily blocked signaling protein may help scientists stop parasites
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a parasite protein that has all the makings of a microbial glass jaw: it's essential, it's vulnerable and humans have nothing like it, meaning ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 19, 2010 |
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Deadly parasite's rare sexual dalliances may help scientists neutralize it
For years, microbiologist Stephen Beverley, Ph.D., has tried to get the disease-causing parasite Leishmania in the mood for love. In this week's Science, he and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report that t ...
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Study examines family lineage of King Tut, his possible cause of death
Using several scientific methods, including analyzing DNA from royal mummies, research findings suggest that malaria and bone abnormalities appear to have contributed to the death of Egyptian pharaoh King ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Duffy-negative blood types no longer protected from P. Vivax malaria
In a paradigm changing discovery, Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) malaria has been identified in a population historically thought to be resistant to the disease, those who do not express the Duffy blood group protein on their red ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Malaria parasite crossed to Man from gorilla: scientists
The parasite that causes the most lethal strain of malaria among humans crossed the species barrier from gorillas, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Sep 22, 2010 |
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New hope for advances in treating malaria
Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed chemicals which kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum - including those resistant to existing drugs.
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Malaria's newest pathway into human cells identified
Development of an effective vaccine for malaria is a step closer following identification of a key pathway used by the malaria parasite to infect human cells. The discovery, by researchers at The Walter and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Certain bacteria render mosquitoes resistant to deadly malaria parasite
cientists have identified a class of naturally occurring bacteria that can strongly inhibit malaria-causing parasites in Anopheles mosquitoes, a finding that could have implications for efforts to control malaria. The study, ...
May 12, 2011 |
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Scientists characterize protein essential to survival of malaria parasite
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.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Malaria parasite goes bananas before sex: new study
(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 ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Naturally occurring protection against severe malaria
In a study to be published in the next issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, in Portugal, show that an anti-oxidant drug can protect again ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Scientists narrow down origins of malaria
(PhysOrg.com) -- From King Tut to Alexander the Great to Mother Theresa, the mosquito-borne illness malaria has long been a menace to human civilization. Now, an international team of scientists, including ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Scientists identify new class of antimalarial compounds
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 ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Unique immunization method provides insights about protective anti-malaria immune response
In this week's New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in Singapore, The Netherlands and France report that they have developed a novel immunization method that will induce fast and effective protection in humans agains ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Plasmodium
Plasmodium is a genus of parasitic protists. Infection by these organisms is known as malaria. The genus Plasmodium was described in 1885 by Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli. Currently over 200 species of this genus are recognized and new species continue to be described.
Of the over 200 known species of Plasmodium, at least 11 species infect humans. Other species infect other animals, including monkeys, rodents, birds, and reptiles. The parasite always has two hosts in its life cycle: a mosquito vector and a vertebrate host.
For more information about Plasmodium, read the full article at
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