A novel testing platform under development by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and CytoAstra, LLC could provide a new noninvasive test for malaria that doesn't require a blood ...

Amplino may be the ultimate garage project. Three DIY bio-hackers have created a mobile malaria testing kit they claim can identify different strains of malaria with higher accuracy, and at lower ...

New Haven, Conn. — Almost half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current ...

The parasites that cause malaria, a disease that kills more than half a million people worldwide annually, were discovered in 1880. Almost 140 years later, there’s still no cure or vaccine for the ...

Since 2010, a biological drama has been playing out in the bloodstreams of humans from Peru to Ethiopia. Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes the most common form of malaria, has managed to ...

Almost half of the world's population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current methods to detect this ...

An additional 47,000 people died from malaria in 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19. COVID disrupted supply chains for antimalarial medicines, infected unvaccinated health workers and made communities ...

Scientists report a new way to test vaccines that may be as rigorous and stringent as exposure to field strains of malaria. Malaria is the deadliest mosquito-borne parasitic infection of humans. In ...

Testing the DNA of antimicrobial-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in the blood of travelers from malaria-endemic regions may help researchers monitor how drug resistance changes over time, a study from ...