The study reveals that ARK1 controls spindle formation during malaria parasite division. Blocking this protein disrupted ...

The malaria parasite is a master of adaptation. To complete its life cycle, the parasite must be transmitted from a mosquito to a human and then back to a mosquito again. Over millions of years of ...

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 ...

Living on a diet of blood requires some specific adaptations, such as a way to keep the food source flowing. To prevent their meal from turning into an indigestible clot, mosquitoes evolved very ...

Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, and requires completing an epic journey within the tiny body of a ...

Researchers have chanced upon a bacteria naturally present in the gut of mosquitoes that inhibits the growth of a parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria. Unlikely to produce resistance, ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the biology ...

spreading malaria, it was announced today. Biologists Zhiqian Li and Ethan Bier from UCSD, and Yuemei Dong and George Dimopoulos from Johns Hopkins University, created a CRISPR-based gene-editing ...

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Mosquitoes may have started targeting humans millions of years ago, possibly during the spread of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia.