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 ...

Malaria is a serious public health burden that causes an estimated 1–2 million deaths and 300–500 million infections each year 1. There is no effective vaccine available, and parasites resistant to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Findings can open up new avenues for targeted approaches toward therapeutic strategies against the malaria-causing P. falciparum that are aimed at stopping the parasite's life cycle progression and ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified the regional character to Plasmodium falciparum across Africa. Malaria, infecting 219 million individuals in 2017, remains a threat to public health and regional stability.

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 ...

Jaipur: A state-level investigation team has confirmed that falciparum malaria, a severe and potentially deadly form of malaria, was responsible for the recent deaths of children in Ghata Gram ...