Malaria is one of the most common causes of death in children in Africa and is triggered by a small parasite that lives in the blood. When the parasite builds up in the blood vessels of the brain, it ...
Malaria-infected red blood cells trigger the immune system's first line of defense by releasing small vesicles that activate a pathogen recognition receptor called MDA5, according to a study published ...
With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the ...
Growing up in Tanzania, Prisca witnessed malaria as a daily reality with children missing school and families spending their limited savings on treatment. Witnessing how a preventable disease could ...
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) sought to understand the mechanisms that drive the creation of atypical B cells (ABCs) in the immune system, which were seen as “junk cells.” ...
New data published in The Journal of Immunology uncovered the role of Plasmodium falciparum infection (malaria) in the development of Burkitt lymphoma (BL), the most common childhood cancer in ...
Malaria is one of the most common causes of death in children in Africa. When the parasite builds up in the blood vessels of the brain, it develops into one of the most dangerous forms of the disease, ...
Scientists conducted a study that reveals the first evidence of harm caused by malaria infection among wild African apes. They discovered that bonobo populations differ in a key immune trait depending ...
For the past quarter-century, the gold standard malaria treatment has been artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs). Yet ...
Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been used to treat malaria since 1944. What do malaria and COVID-19 have in common? On the surface, not much. But according to early research, an old malaria ...
A new study led by Yale researchers discovered a prevention method for malaria infection in mosquitoes that stops infection in mosquitoes and thus prevents the pathogen from getting transferred to ...