Mosquitoes transmit infectious diseases to millions of people every year, including malaria for which there is no effective vaccineNew research published in Insect Molecular Biology reveals that mosquito genetic engineering may turn the transmitter into a natural 'flying vaccinator', providing a n

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A collaboration, called the Open Source Drug Discovery Foundation (OSDD), plans to use voluntary and open efforts to accelerate the development of affordable drugs for diseases including malaria, leishmaniasis and – first – tuberculosisFew if any new drugs have been created for many of

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In a paradigm changing discovery, Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) malaria has been identified in a population historically thought to be resistant to the disease, those who do not express the Duffy blood group protein on their red blood cells, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve In a st

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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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