A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body.

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

Advances in vaccine technology, antibody therapies, and genetic surveillance are giving researchers new tools to fight ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a synthetic compound that has the potential to treat malaria and block its transmission.

An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for ...

Partial resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the artemisinin component of artemisinin-based combination therapies, the most important malaria drugs, emerged in Southeast Asia and now threatens East ...

What am I looking at? This is a colored scanning electron microscopy image of a human red blood cell infected with the parasite that causes malaria. The infected cell is blue (1), and the uninfected ...

A new approach to antimalarial development, aided by high-throughput screening, could help to overcome resistance.

Over the last couple of decades, rapid diagnostic tests have emerged as a vital tool in the fight to control malaria. The relatively inexpensive test strips, which work in just minutes, have diagnosed ...