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Immature malaria parasites are 100 times less sensitive to artemisinin-based drugs than older parasites, a new study has…
A new class of antimalarial drug has been discovered, using spiroindolones to block a pump within the malaria parasites face…
New Australian research has, for the first time, shown exactly how blood cells called platelets kill the parasite that causes malaria infection and revealed a new reason why people from Africa are more…
Changing a patient’s diet could reduce the side-effects resulting from quinine treatment for malaria. A new study has found…
Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the malaria-causing parasite, plasmodium vivax. The parasite shows the…
A new drug compound has successfully cured malaria in mice models, according to University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers…
Researchers have developed a technique which determines the risk of infants in endemic countries developing clinical malaria…
A new anti-inflammatory drug that prevents the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage could help…
Infant malaria infections can be cut by up to 30% when anti-malarial drugs are given intermittently over a 12-month period…
Special “scaffold” proteins are responsible for the malaria parasite’s transformation into a banana shape before sexual reproduction…
More than 1.2 million people died from malaria worldwide in 2010 – twice the number found in the most recent comprehensive…
Mosquito-borne diseases remain one of the greatest global threats to human health. Genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes hold great potential to reduce the burden of disease but as research moves from the…
The great burden of death and disease caused by the malaria parasite often goes unnoticed in the developed world. But it’s the leading cause of death in children under five years old in many sub-Sahara…
New research has found that the number of malaria cases in the East African highlands has dropped dramatically, despite a…
World-first field trials of a new technique to stop mosquitoes passing the dangerous and painful dengue virus onto humans have been declared a success, with plans afoot to roll out the method in dengue-plagued…
Female mosquitoes cannot tell if a male she has mated with is fertile or “spermless” and unable to fertilise her eggs. The…
More than 200 million people are infected annually with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, and around 800,000 people die every year of the mosquito-borne disease, most of them children. As reported…
Malaria parasites are able to adapt their growth rate to render anti-malarial drugs useless, according to new research by Australian scientists. More than 200 million people are infected annually with…
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