What: Scientists studying the Anopheles gambiae mosquito – the main vector of malaria – have found that when the mosquito takes a blood meal, that act triggers two enzymes to form a network of crisscrossing proteins around the ingested bloodThe formation of this protein barrier, the re

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Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at playThe research, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scien

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ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Sanaria Inc. has received additional support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health in the form of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) GrantThe three-year award totaling approximately $3 million

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Gunilla Priebe has studied the international research alliance the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM), which advocates for malaria research in general and the strengthening of research environments in AfricaMalaria research has historically been controlled by interests located in areas outsi

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseasesYet, how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle has remained an enigma despite decades of rigorous researchBut now a team led by a cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has

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By unraveling the mysteries that exist within the molecular composition of mosquitoes, a team of Kansas State University researchers is trying to discover how the insects survive a parasite that causes malaria in humansKristin Michel, K-State assistant professor in the Division of Biology, has bee

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Montreal -- Scientists battling malaria have earned a major victoryAccording to a Nature Genetics study, an international group of researchers has used genomics to decode the blueprint of Plasmodium falciparum – a strain of malaria most resistant to drugs that causes the most deaths around t

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report that they have discovered – and now know how to exploit – an unusual chemical reaction mechanism that allows malaria parasites and many disease-causing bacteria to surviveThe research team, from the University of Illinois, also has developed the fi

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Scientists at Vanderbilt and Yale universities have successfully transplanted most of the "nose" of the mosquito that spreads malaria into frog eggs and fruit flies and are employing these surrogates to combat the spread of the deadly and debilitating disease that afflicts 500 million peopleThe re

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Rockville, MD -- The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries reveal that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of substandard quality and thus may contribute to the growth of drug-resistant strains of Th

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