Malaria's secret to surviving in the blood uncovered
New research from the Francis Crick Institute has found how the malaria parasite protects itself from toxic compounds in red blood cells.
New research from the Francis Crick Institute has found how the malaria parasite protects itself from toxic compounds in red blood cells.
Biochemistry
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A research team at ISGlobal, an institution supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has developed a system to induce massive sexual conversion of the P. falciparum malaria parasite in vitro. This technique, published in Science ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2020
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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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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a role in the pathogenesis of malaria vivax, according to a study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and the Germans Trias i Pujol Health Science ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2020
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The consumption of sugar is a fundamental source of fuel in most living organisms. In the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the uptake of glucose is essential to its life cycle. Like in other cells, sugar is transported ...
Biochemistry
Jan 29, 2020
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Malaria parasites transform healthy red blood cells into rigid versions of themselves that clump together, hindering the transportation of oxygen. The infectious disease affects more than 200 million people around the world ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 27, 2019
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DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one of the two most common forms of the disease, Plasmodium vivax, from Europe to the Americas during the colonial period, finds ...
Evolution
Dec 2, 2019
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An international group of researchers has proven that a molecule called TCMDC-135051 can selectively inhibit a protein that is essential to the lifecycle of Plasmodium falciparum, one of the parasites that causes malaria.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 7, 2019
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Malaria is endemic to large areas of Africa, Asia and South America and annually kills more than 400,000 people, a majority of whom are children under age 5, with hundreds of millions of new infections every year.
Biochemistry
Sep 5, 2019
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The solution to the problem of increasing drug resistance among malaria-causing parasites could come from the North, according to a study published in Chemical Communications by researchers from Université Laval and the ...
Biochemistry
Jun 5, 2019
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