The Plasmodium life cycle is extremely complex, as the parasite must adapt to both vertebrate and invertebrate hosts, invade different cell types and evade the immune system. As a consequence of this, ...

image: Transmission cycle of malaria parasites between human host and mosquito vector (upper) and map of gene activity of parasite cells at different stages of the cycle (bottom).

(1) Plasmodium’s life-cycle is set off as soon as a female Anopheles mosquito containing a form of the parasite called the sporozoite in its salivary glands bites a human.

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

Plasmodium reichenowi, a malarial parasite of the chimpanzee, was infective to Anopheles freeborni, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Anopheles stephensi, Anopheles maculatus, Anopheles dims, and Anopheles ...

The atlas maps the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in unprecedented cellular detail as it develops inside a mosquito and prepares to infect humans through a bite.

Each year, around 249 million human cases of malaria are caused by a Plasmodium species, resulting in about 608,000 deaths. P. knowlesi is one of several species responsible for human malaria.

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 ...