Malaria News

November 20, 2024

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Stopping Severe Malaria by Harnessing Natural Human Antibodies

Nov. 20, 2024 — Scientists have identified human antibodies capable of targeting the proteins responsible for severe malaria, potentially paving the way for new vaccines or treatments. Using organ-on-a-chip technology, researchers successfully demonstrated that ...

Study Uncovers First Evidence of Resistance to Standard Malaria Treatment in African Children With Severe Malaria

Nov. 14, 2024 — An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence of partial resistance to artemisinin derivatives -- the primary treatment for malaria -- in young children with severe ...

From Pets to Pests: Researchers Explore New Tool to Fight Disease-Carrying Insects

Nov. 12, 2024 — Researchers are testing a product commonly used to treat ticks and fleas on pets to target fly and mosquito larvae with the goal of helping reduce the spread of diseases carried by these ...

Bacteria Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mosquito Control Schemes

Nov. 4, 2024 — Mosquito larvae grow faster if they're exposed to particular bacteria, according to a new study that could help global health ...

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Maternal Antibodies Interfere With Malaria Vaccine Responses

Oct. 23, 2024 — Maternal antibodies passed across the placenta can interfere with the response to the malaria vaccine, which would explain its lower efficacy in infants under five months of age, according to new ...

In a Warming World, Public Needs to Know More About Protections from Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

Oct. 8, 2024 — Driven in part by climate change, epidemics from mosquito-spread viruses are occurring with increasing frequency. Yet few among the American public ...

Scientists Take a Major Step in Understanding How to Stop the Transmission of Malaria

Oct. 1, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered how the parasite that causes malaria orchestrates their cell division -- which is key in enabling the parasite to transmit ...

Scientists Design New Drug to Fight Malaria

Sep. 26, 2024 — A team has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of ...

Mapping the Sex Life of Malaria Parasites at Single Cell Resolution, Reveals the Genetics Underlying Malaria Transmission

Aug. 26, 2024 — Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In ...

Mosquitoes Sense Infrared from Body Heat to Help Track Humans Down

Aug. 22, 2024 — While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be scary. One mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, spreads the viruses that cause over 100,000,000 cases ...

What Time the Malaria-Bearing Mosquito Bites You Might Make a Difference

Aug. 19, 2024 — Circadian rhythms appear to influence vulnerability to malaria ...

Trojan Horse Method Gives Malaria Parasites a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive. Now, scientists say its ...

Candidate Malaria Vaccine Provides Lasting Protection in NIH-Sponsored Trials

Aug. 14, 2024 — Recent trials of an experimental malaria vaccine in healthy Malian adults found that all three tested regimens were safe. One of the trials enrolled ...

Controlling Mosquito Populations Through Genetic Breeding

July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a new way to identify genetic targets useful for control of mosquito populations, potentially offering an alternative to insecticides. Their study focused on the genetic basis ...

The Unintended Consequences of Success Against Malaria

July 23, 2024 — The insecticide-treated bed nets and insecticide sprays that were so effective in preventing mosquito bites -- and therefore malaria -- are increasingly viewed as the causes of household pest ...

Origin and Spread of Malaria

June 12, 2024 — Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over the past 5,500 years, identifying trade, warfare, and colonialism as major catalysts for its ...

How Climate Change Will Affect Malaria Transmission

May 9, 2024 — A new model for predicting the effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa could lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease according to a new study. Previous methods ...

An Adjuvant Made in Yeast Could Lower Vaccine Cost and Boost Availability

May 8, 2024 — Adjuvants make vaccines more effective, though one of the best is an expensive extract from the soap bark tree. To lower the cost and avoid the laborious extraction process from bark, synthetic ...

Source of Pregnancy Complications from Infections Revealed by Placenta Map

May 3, 2024 — The placenta's response to infections from malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria has been mapped in high resolution, possibly paving the way for new treatment ...

Deeper Understanding of Malaria Parasite Development Unlocks Opportunities to Block Disease Spread

May 2, 2024 — Natural malaria infections have been genetically analysed at a higher resolution than ever before, giving insights that could help understand and block ...

Malaria May Shorten Leukocyte Telomeres Among Sub-Saharan Africans

May 2, 2024 — The length of telomeres in white blood cells, known as leukocytes, varies significantly among sub-Saharan African populations, researchers report. Moreover, leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is ...

Circadian Rhythms Can Influence Drugs' Effectiveness

Apr. 25, 2024 — Researchers discovered that more than 300 liver genes are under circadian control: Circadian variations affect how much of a drug is available and how effectively the body can break it ...

Can Climate Change Accelerate Transmission of Malaria? Pioneering Research Sheds Light on Impacts of Temperature

Apr. 24, 2024 — A groundbreaking study combined novel experimental data within an innovative modeling framework to examine how temperature might affect transmission risk of malaria in different environments in ...

How Mosquito Larva Guts Could Help Create Highly Specific Insecticides

Apr. 8, 2024 — Did you know that the world's deadliest animal is the mosquito? And Aedes aegypti is one of the most dangerous. This bug spreads viruses that cause dengue fever, which was recently declared as ...

New Discovery Unravels Malaria Invasion Mechanism

Apr. 3, 2024 — A recent breakthrough sheds light on how the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells. The study reveals the role of a sugar called sialic acid in this invasion process. ...

Mosquito Detectives Track Malaria's History

Apr. 1, 2024 — A group of researchers is calling on colleagues around the world to join them in what they call 'pathogen prospecting' by tracking down archival specimens of mosquitoes in museums and other ...

First DNA Study of Ancient Eastern Arabians Reveals Malaria Adaptation

Feb. 27, 2024 — People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ...

Blocking an Essential Nutrient Inhibits Malaria Parasite Growth

Feb. 13, 2024 — Researchers found that by preventing the malaria parasite from scavenging fatty acids, a type of required nutrient, it could no longer ...

Scientists Debunk Role of 'Junk Cells' in Fight Against Malaria

Feb. 8, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a previously unknown ability of a group of immune system cells, known as Atypical B cells (ABCs), to fight infectious diseases such as malaria. The scientists say ABCs ...

Are Environmental Toxins Putting Future Generations at Risk?

Feb. 8, 2024 — In a study that signals potential reproductive and health complications in humans, now and for future generations, researchers have concluded that fathers exposed to environmental toxins, notably ...

African Women Living With HIV Have an Effective Option to Prevent Malaria During Pregnancy

Jan. 13, 2024 — In women living with HIV, preventive treatment with DHA-PPQ is a safe and effective strategy to prevent malaria during pregnancy, according to the final results of the MAMAH clinical ...

Some Mosquitoes Like It Hot

Jan. 8, 2024 — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new ...

Classifying the Natural History of Asymptomatic Malaria

Jan. 4, 2024 — The dynamic lifecycle of the malaria parasite means that the density of the Plasmodium can suddenly drop below the level of detection in asymptomatic people -- especially when older, less sensitive ...

New Approaches in the Fight Against Drug Resistance in Malaria

Nov. 20, 2023 — Malaria is one of the most widespread and deadly infectious diseases worldwide. New compounds are continuously required due to the risk of malaria parasites becoming resistant to the medicines ...