The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax can adhere to human spleen cells through the expression of so-called variant proteins. These are the conclusions of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for ...

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African-centric TP53 variant increases iron accumulation and bacterial pathogenesis but improves response to malaria toxin. Nature Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14151-9 ...

Tracey Lamb, PhD, professor of pathology, is the University of Utah’s first National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow. In this role, she will spend time with ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system.

A comprehensive analysis published in 2023 highlighted the role of endothelial dysfunction, immune cell sequestration, and neuroinflammation as central to cerebral malaria pathology, while also ...

Advancing fundamental knowledge of the mechanisms underlying susceptibility to infection and the pathogenesis of clinical disease due to malaria and chronic worm infections endemic in tropical areas ...

The center maintains continued external funding from the National Institutes of Health and indirectly from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for human and basic research studies that address the ...

It is also critical for disease research such as malaria which affects over 220 million people annually, and can even enable new and improved cell therapies.

As the South had the most malaria transmission, the center was based in Atlanta, still home to the CDC today. The tools used to control it now, while improved, adhere to many of the same principles.