Researchers said they have identified a new “hidden” life cycle of malaria parasites in the human spleen — a finding that could have implications for malaria elimination programs, one of ...

Hesperos, the human-on-a-chip company, models the full life cycle of a deadly malaria parasite by combining a human ...

The sexual stage of the malaria parasite's life-cycle occurs within the mosquito after it has fed on malaria-infected blood.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, there were approximately 229 million cases of malaria around the world, of which 409,000 were fatal. Now, researchers at the Francis Crick ...

New Jersey officials are now investigating whether a resident’s malaria infection was locally acquired. The New Jersey ...

Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc. Aug 28 2023 The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020.

The study, scheduled for publication on-line in the preview edition of Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS Biology) on August 20, reveals that an unusually high percentage of genes—at least 60 ...

Of course, malaria can be spread by other means - it just needs a helping hand. As keenly demonstrated in Taiwan nearly 20 years ago, the entire ouborous-like life cycle of malaria was bypassed for ...

Perhaps the biggest threat comes from natural disasters, which climate change is making more common and intense. Take the ...

Zeeshan, M., et al. (2022) Genome-wide functional analysis reveals key roles for kinesins in the mammalian and mosquito stages of the malaria parasite life cycle.

Instead, James and his colleagues want to try a different approach: making mosquitoes themselves into malaria-fighting warriors. To understand how it works, it helps to understand the life cycle ...