Research on preventing malaria often focuses on mosquitoes, seeking to kill them or to make them immune to infection by the Plasmodium protists that cause the disease. A new idea was published ...

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.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mycologists tend to base their evolutionary assumptions about all fungi on the higher fungi such as mushrooms, bread molds and yeasts. But that is a mistake, according to a ...