Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the ...

A recent breakthrough sheds light on how the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells. The study reveals the role of a sugar called sialic acid in this invasion process.

Their red blood cells become susceptible to changing to ... which is also the protein through which the parasite Plasmodium vivax – the second-most-common cause of malaria – enters the cell.

Natural killer cells that responded to Plasmodium-infected red blood cells had higher levels of MDA5, which was activated by small vesicles released from the infected cells. Treatment with a small ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have discovered that ...

Malaria continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, with over 200 million cases and approximately ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito ...

The life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite involves infecting ... Both sickle cell disease and malaria can affect red blood cells. SCD is an inheritable condition that affects the shape and ...

It turns out that the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, can shut down a key set of ... Once inside the human body, the parasite enters red blood cells to replicate—but it must avoid alerting the immune ...