With the support of a Phase II grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Penn State materials scientists and medical researchers are working to develop a process to destroy malaria parasites in the blood using low-power ...
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A three-dose regimen of a whole-parasite vaccine against malaria—called Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite (PfSPZ) vaccine—demonstrated safety and efficacy when tested in adults living in Burkina Faso, West Africa, which ...
Jan 4, 2023
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A new technique could provide vital information about a community's immunity to infectious diseases including malaria and COVID-19.
May 11, 2020
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A Johns Hopkins University scientist is part of a team working on a method to predict malaria outbreaks months in advance, potentially giving public health officials a chance to protect people from a disease that poses a ...
Oct 24, 2017
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A new malaria vaccine could be the first to tackle different forms of the disease and help those most vulnerable to infection, a study suggests.
Oct 26, 2011
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Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have demonstrated that a novel, second-generation malaria vaccine candidate based on the tobacco mosaic virus may offer protection against Plasmodium falciparum malaria ...
Jan 28, 2020
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An international team has discovered a protein that plays a key biological role in a parasite that causes malaria. Deactivating this protein reduces in vitro growth of Plasmodium falciparum, the protozoa behind the most virulent ...
Feb 18, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have today reported new findings from their Phase 2b trial following the administration of a booster dose of the candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M—which ...
Sep 11, 2022
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(Medical Xpress) -- The parasites that cause human malaria and make it particularly lethal have a unique ability to evade destruction by the body’s immune system, diminishing its ability to develop immunity and fight ...
Jul 12, 2012
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Scientists uncover a port of liver entry for malaria parasites in a report published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine. If these results hold up in humans, drugs that target this entry protein might help prevent the ...
Jul 27, 2015
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