Malaria struck an estimated 228 million people worldwide in 2018. Yet questions remain about how the mosquito-borne malaria parasite, Plasmodium, infects humans—and how antimalarial-drug-resistance ...

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

Scientists have identified novel antiplasmodial lead compounds for mass drug administration and vector control to eliminate malaria. A vector refers to an organism that carries and transmits an ...

Anopheles freeborni, A. balabacensis balabacensis, A. atroparvus, A. stephensi, and A. maculatus mosquitoes were infected by feeding on 12 Aotus trivirgatus monkeys infected with a Nigerian strain of ...

For the first time the developmental stages of the deadliest human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, have been mapped in high resolution, allowing scientists to better understand this ...

Two genes in Ghanaian adults, that disrupt the life cycle of plasmodium falciparum, offer new options of malaria vaccines candidates that could prove effective in efforts to control the disease in ...

One Seattle morning, Carolina Reid sat in a room with nine other volunteers, each waiting to take part in a clinical trial for a new, experimental malaria vaccine. Reid's turn came. She put her arm ...