For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines ...

Mosquitoes haven't always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot ...

Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

Equatorial Guinea has launched its National Malaria Elimination Strategy – Vision 2030 with $116 million in funding to ...

Parasites lacking ARK1 failed to complete their development in vertebrate host cells or mosquitoes, preventing them from spreading disease. Given the importance of ARK1 for malaria parasites, this ...

New research co-led by Burnet Institute and WEHI has uncovered how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax, paving ...

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria. A recent study has demonstrated that a genetic variant named rs112233623-T ...

ABSTRACT: Molecular methods are transforming malaria diagnosis and surveillance by enabling highly sensitive and specific identification of Plasmodium species, including mixed infections that ...

Abstract: Malaria is a mosquito-borne, life-threatening, and contagious disease that has caused thousands of fatalities in recent years. Due to inadequate detection, the inexperience of laboratory ...

Sequencing hundreds of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes provides new insights into the evolutionary patterns of this important human malaria-transmitting species. New research into the genetics of ...