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

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

One-off cases of malaria in the U.S. may become more common as warming temperatures lead to booming mosquito populations ...

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.

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

Dr David Guttery said: “We know that the malaria parasite shuffles genes during sexual reproduction (termed gene recombination), but what we don’t know is how it works.

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A vulnerable stage in the parasite’s life cycle Targeting the parasite inside the mosquito offers a strategic advantage due to what researchers call a population bottleneck. While malaria parasites ...

The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020.

Malaria remains a large global health burden as it is estimated to infect 230 million people and cause more than 600,000 deaths per year, mainly children in Sub-Saharan Africa.