New research found that inflammation in the body can slow down the development of malaria parasites in the bloodstream -- a discovery that may constitute a potential new strategy for preventing or ...

Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control ...

Malaria parasites know good times from bad and plan their offspring accordingly, scientists have found, in a development that could inform new treatments. Scientists have found that the reproduction ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle that appears to be crucial for reproduction. This is important because ...

Malaria parasites know good times from bad and plan their offspring accordingly, scientists have found, in a development that could inform new treatments. Malaria parasites know good times from bad ...

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2008) — International investigations of an organism that one UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher calls a "silly little green scum" have led to key insights into the ...

Scientists have looked for immune system factors that might help mosquitoes ward off pathogens such as malarial parasites and indirectly protect humans from infection. Yale researchers found one by ...

Scientists at Keele University have created the first detailed map of the genetic "switches" that control reproduction in ...

A protein within the malaria parasite that seems to be crucial to its survival as it develops within a mosquito could present a new therapeutic target to prevent malaria in people. Malaria infects ...

Malaria is a deadly disease killing more than half a million people every year, but a new vaccine is showing promise as it ...