At the University Hospital of Tübingen, a clinical trial led by Prof. Dr. Peter Kremsner, Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine and Human Parasitology and Dr. Rolf Fendel, Research Group Leader ...
May 5, 2021
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WEHI researchers have identified how natural human antibodies can block malaria parasites from entering red blood cells, potentially indicating how new protective therapies could be developed against this globally significant ...
May 3, 2021
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White adipose tissue (WAT), or white fat, plays a fundamental role in the development of cerebral malaria in mouse models and humans, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health scientists in ...
Apr 20, 2021
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A change in the plan of attack against malaria—to target the infection as soon as it enters the bloodstream—has yielded exciting results for Burnet Institute scientists seeking to accelerate the development of a highly ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Scientists have discovered in more detail than ever before how the human body's immune system reacts to malaria and sickle cell disease.
Mar 19, 2021
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An international collaboration of researchers have developed a computational method to identify malaria parasites as they move around the world with their human hosts—key to measuring impact of elimination campaigns.
Mar 4, 2021
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Larvae of a new malaria mosquito species are abundantly present in water containers in cities in Ethiopia. The mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, is the main malaria mosquito in India but only appeared on the African continent ...
Jan 27, 2021
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A vector refers to an organism that carries and transmits an infectious disease, as mosquitoes do malaria.
Jan 14, 2021
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In the ongoing arms race between humans and the parasite that causes malaria, Taane Clark and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) report that new mutations that enhance resistance to a ...
Dec 31, 2020
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Multiple bouts of blood feeding by mosquitoes shorten the incubation period for malaria parasites and increase malaria transmission potential, according to a study published December 31 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens ...
Dec 31, 2020
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