Every year, malaria infects more than 250 million people, and more than 1 million die from the parasitic disease. For decades, doctors have treated malaria with chloroquine — an effective, inexpensive remedy. But now, ...
Biochemistry
Oct 18, 2010
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A three-dimensional 'map' of a critical protein that malaria parasites use to invade human red blood cells could lead to a vaccine countering the most widespread species of the parasite.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 19, 2016
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have a possible explanation for why iron can sometimes worsen malaria infection. By studying mice and samples from malaria patients, the researchers found that extra iron interferes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 29, 2018
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An international research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology has found that malaria parasite genomes are shaped by parasite-specific gene families, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 4, 2019
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The genomes of the two least common species of human malaria parasites are revealed today in Nature by a team of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international collaborators. These sequences will ...
Biotechnology
Jan 25, 2017
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New research from the Francis Crick Institute has found how the malaria parasite protects itself from toxic compounds in red blood cells.
Biochemistry
Jun 30, 2020
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The parasite that causes the most lethal strain of malaria among humans crossed the species barrier from gorillas, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2010
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Despite humanity's best efforts to eradicate malaria, the disease struck more than 200 million people in 2017, according to the World Health Organization. Worse yet, the parasite that causes malaria is developing resistance ...
Biochemistry
Oct 16, 2019
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Even when a person suffering from malaria is burning up with fever and too sick to function, the tiny blood-eating parasites lurking inside them continue to flourish, relentlessly growing and multiplying as they gobble up ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 5, 2020
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A new mathematical model for malaria shows how competition between parasite strains within a human host reduces the odds of drug resistance developing in a high-transmission setting. But if a drug-resistant strain does become ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 28, 2018
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