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

Malaria parasites don't do this, but the Maltese cross may not be immediately apparent in a blood smear and can be easily missed by an untrained examiner.

By hand, 113 samples were diagnosed as malaria parasite positive, whereas the AI-system correctly identified 99 samples as positive, which corresponds to an 88% accuracy rate.

AI Detects the Presence of Malaria Parasites The study's lead author Dr. Roxanne Rees-Channer, a researcher at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases at UCLH in the UK, elaborated on the findings ...

Researchers knew that the malaria parasites had to harvest iron-rich hemoglobin from human blood cells, crack it open to get at the iron inside, and move the iron to the parts of the parasite that ...

By hand, 113 samples were diagnosed as malaria parasite positive, whereas the AI-system correctly identified 99 samples as positive, which corresponds to an 88 per cent accuracy rate.

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.

New research from University of Utah Health has identified a promising target for new antimalarial drugs: a protein called DMT1, which allows single-celled malaria parasites to use iron, which is ...

A concept illustration of blood cells and Plasmodium parasites Cheap rapid tests for malaria have helped drive down the prevalence of the disease in many parts of Africa. But just 15 years or so ...

Through the microscope’s eyepiece he photographed the changes in the tiny blood vessels on the abdominal lining. Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium.

Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees. They have discovered that the parasite P. malariae – one ...

Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29306-4 ...