All malaria articles
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NewsChimpanzees are genetically adapted to local habitats and infections such as malaria
Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats, some of which may protect against malaria, according to a study by an international team.
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NewsResearchers discover novel class of anti-malaria antibodies
A novel class of antibodies that binds to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite could lead to new prevention methods. The most potent of the new antibodies was found to provide protection against malaria parasites in an animal model.
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NewsGlobal research uncovers critical weakness in malaria parasite
Scientists exploring how immunity develops against Plasmodium falciparum found that broadly reactive antibodies from various individuals consistently bound to the same site on a key virulence protein of the malaria parasite.
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NewsA new approach to predicting malaria drug resistance
Researchers analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance.
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NewsNew tool reveals how malaria sticks to red blood vessels
Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system.
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NewsHow protective antibodies get in malaria’s way
Researcher’s structural insights help reveal weak spot in parasite’s plan of attack which could help guide vaccine design.
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NewsHuman antibodies could prevent the malaria parasite from causing life-threatening infections
Malaria, particularly in its severe forms, remains a global health and economic burden. It causes the deaths of more than 600,000 people every year – most of them African children under five. In a new study, published in the journal Nature, researchers from EMBL Barcelona, the University of Texas, the ...
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NewsStudy uncovers first evidence of resistance to standard malaria treatment in African children with severe malaria
Researchers have uncovered evidence of partial resistance to artemisinin derivatives — the primary treatment for malaria — in young children with severe, or ’complicated’ malaria.
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NewsStudy provides first evidence of African children with severe malaria experiencing partial resistance to world’s most powerful malaria drug
A new study from Uganda provides the first evidence to date that resistance to a lifesaving malaria drug may be emerging in the group of patients that accounts for most of the world’s malaria deaths: young African children suffering from serious infections.
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NewsGlobal researchers unite their expertise to boost infectious diseases research across the Asia-Pacific region
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research Infectious Diseases Labs and France’s Institut Pasteur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to address the urgent health threats posed by the rise of tropical infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.
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NewsNoninvasive malaria test could be global game changer
Researchers present a new noninvasive test that could dramatically alter the global malaria testing landscape by providing reliable, safe, and sensitive testing to low- and middle-income countries.
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NewsNew study links climate change to malaria increase in northern Kenya
A new study reveals key insights into how climatic factors like rainfall and temperature, combined with socio-economic changes such as urbanization and malaria control interventions, are affecting the spread of malaria in Kenya.
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NewsMaternal antibodies interfere with malaria vaccine responses
Maternal antibodies passed across the placenta can interfere with the response to the malaria vaccine, which would explain its lower efficacy in infants under five months of age, according to research.
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NewsMosquitoes carrying Plasmodium and imported through parcels and luggage causing Odyssean malaria in Europe
Malaria cases resulting from bites of mosquitoes transported into Europe by aircraft from areas where it is common have increased, according to a number of studies.
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NewsIn a warming world, public needs to know more about protections from mosquito-borne illnesses
Very few (15%) among the American public worry that they or their families will contract dengue or West Nile virus over the new three months, according to the latest Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) health knowledge survey.
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NewsScientists design new drug to fight malaria
Scientists have designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action. MED6-189 is effective against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant P. falciparum strains in vitro as well as in a humanized mouse model.
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NewsFirst-of-its-kind vaccine expands malaria protection for pregnant women
For the first time, immunization with a malaria vaccine has been shown to protect mothers from malaria during pregnancy and to protect for two transmission seasons without booster doses of vaccine.
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NewsTrojan horse method gives malaria parasites a taste of their own medicine
Researchers have developed a trojan horse method that tricks malaria parasites into ingesting a fatal dose of drugs by exploiting the parasite’s need for cholesterol to survive.
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NewsSRI is developing a new malaria treatment that aims to protect from the disease
The injectable formulation is affordable, easily administered, and could potentially provide months of protection from the potentially fatal disease.
