image: The malaria parasite inside a red blood cell, left, and in a computer-generated model. Malarial infection inhibits the smooth flow of blood through capillaries. view more ...

Malaria, caused by Plasmodium parasite species affected more than 250 million people and caused over half a million deaths in 2023 alone. Although young children in the African region are most ...

Previous studies have shown that proteins expressed on the surface of malaria-infected red blood cells, known as repetitive interspersed family (RIFIN) proteins, can bind to immune cell receptors ...

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

A Morris County resident contracted the illness without leaving the United States. Investigators are searching to determine ...

At Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), those same slides are digitised, processed, and analysed using a homegrown AI tool ...

When the malaria parasite digests red blood cells, it produces hemozoin, a substance that isn’t found in the blood stream of non-infected patients. The research team developed a laser that heats ...

Babesiosis is an infectious disease that manifests like malaria and spreads like Lyme disease. Once rare in the United States, it is now becoming more prevalent, particularly in the Northeast, ...

Red blood cells are a prime target for infection by the malaria parasite, but the absence of a nucleus containing DNA in red blood cells hinders genetic research to understand how these cells act ...

Fighting malaria A highly resistant malaria parasite hijacks resources in immature red blood cells to defend itself against the impact of anti-malarial drugs, researchers have found. The study, by ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. November 18, 2009 -- When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then ...