Understanding how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax paves the way for the first effective vaccine against it.

Scientists have uncovered a crucial weakness in the malaria parasite that could open the door to new treatments. Researchers identified a protein called Aurora-related kinase 1 (ARK1) that acts like a ...

The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020. In young children and pregnant women living in areas where the disease is ...

In this new study, published in PLOS Biology, scientists have uncovered the crucial roles of a group of motor proteins named kinesins during the parasite life cycle. The research, led by Rita Tewari, ...

Breakthrough laboratory findings have identified a protein vital to the survival and spread of malaria parasites, offering scientists a promising new target for drug development against one of the ...

Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control ...

Explore the latest breakthrough in malaria drugs targeting a unique protein essential for the parasite's survival and transmission.