Plasmodium falciparum causes malaria in humans by multiplying first in the liver cells and then in red blood cells. Merozoites or daughter parasites are released as the host cells are destroyed to ...

Calcium is essential for the correct functioning of the cell and requires regulation to avoid high concentrations causing cell death. Calcium ions are important for cell signaling as the binding of ...

The evolutionary path of the deadliest human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, has been revealed for the first time. This parasite is a member of the Laverania parasite family that only infect ...

The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 initiated an era in which efforts to control malaria were aimed at the anopheline mosquito. The World Health Organization's Global Malaria Eradication Campaign ...

Researchers have developed a novel approach to analyzing malaria parasite genomes to reveal how antigenic variation arises. Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European ...

Over the last couple of decades, rapid diagnostic tests have emerged as a vital tool in the fight to control malaria. The relatively inexpensive test strips, which work in just minutes, have diagnosed ...

Conversion from the asexual to the sexual phase of the malaria parasite is necessary for its transmission to the mosquito. A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) -- an ...

Drugs have been used to treat and prevent malaria for centuries. Bark from the cinchona tree, which contained an array of alkaloids with antimalarial properties, appeared in Western therapeutics in ...

The discovery of how a widely used antimalarial affects zinc levels in parasites, could lead to new strategies to combat drug resistance The crucial role of zinc depletion in the action of a key ...

Swine flu has made the world all too aware of the possibility of diseases making the leap from animal hosts to human ones. Now, we know that another disease made a similar transition from chimpanzees ...