A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular insights into placental malaria. “This is a really lovely piece of science,” ...

What am I looking at? This is a colored scanning electron microscopy image of a human red blood cell infected with the parasite that causes malaria. The infected cell is blue (1), and the uninfected ...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus genome had barely been sequenced when there was a major effort to develop a safe and effective vaccine against it. But scientists working on COVID vaccines have one key thing ...

Malaria symptoms include chills and shivering, a high fever, an enlarged spleen and liver, and anaemia. It may also result in ...

The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. When infections such as malaria take hold in the body, red ...

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research suggests that the mosquito-borne malady can be curbed by getting the insects ...

After this phase, they re-enter the bloodstream, infecting red blood cells (RBCs) and causing malaria’s characteristic fever and chills. As the parasite multiplies asexually within RBCs ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley investigates the parasite Plasmodium that carries malaria. This disease ... as this parasite infects his red blood cells. When mature, the parasite causes ...

A nurse at the local clinic in central Rwanda told her that an acute form of malaria was attacking her daughter’s red blood cells. There was nothing the clinic could do to save her life ...