For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found a key to developing a vaccine against one of humankind’s oldest ...

By capturing malaria parasites mid-invasion, researchers revealed the structure of a key invasion complex and used it to design a mini-protein that prevented parasites from entering red blood cells.

Scientists have identified targets on the malaria-causing parasite that could be key to developing a universal vaccine ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...

A discovery by McGill-affiliated researchers could lead to more effective treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases. When mice are infected in the middle of the night with the parasites ...

Current methods can vastly overestimate the rates that malaria parasites are multiplying in an infected person's blood, which has important implications for determining how harmful they could be to a ...

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 ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...

Anti-Malaria Month is observed in June every year. Doctors explain why the mosquito borne disease is more dangerous for ...