Microbial Misadventures is a recurring series on Body Horrors looking at instances and incidents where human meets microbe in novel and unusual circumstances that challenge our assumptions about how ...

Sibao Wang, André L. A. Dos-Santos, Wei Huang, Kun Connie Liu, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Ge Wei, Peter Agre, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, Driving mosquito refractoriness to Plasmodium falciparum with engineered ...

WEHI researchers have visualized a key protein complex in malaria parasites for the first time, uncovering a new target for next-generation vaccines that could help stop the disease from spreading.

Health officials are investigating a case of possibly locally acquired malaria in New Jersey, just weeks after a health department in Washington State launched a similar investigation. According to ...

More from Nature Outlooks Malaria parasites have a complex life cycle that sees the sexual phase of their development occur inside the mosquito.

What animal kills more humans than any other? The answer is not rhinos, or tigers, or even sharks. The answer is the tiny mosquito, vector for the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria. Each ...

The answer is the tiny mosquito, vector for the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria. Each year more than 600,000 people die from the mosquito-borne illness, despite interventions, including the ...