Malaria

  • Partnership Will Create Computer Infrastructure to Support Global Malaria Project
    A global partnership has set its sights on nothing less than making malaria — an implacable enemy that predates the human race — nothing more than a bad memory. VECNet, the Vector Ecology and Control Network, aims to get there by combining and supporting the ingenuity of ...More
    2 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Reveal Malaria's Deadly Grip
    Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Oxford, NIMR Tanzania and Retrogenix LTD, have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red blood cells stick to the sides of blood vessels in ...More
    2 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • PADs Present Promising Aid in Battle Against Fake Antimalarial Drugs
    A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “Africa’s Malaria Battle: Fake Drug Pipeline Undercuts Progress," outlines a counterfeit pharmaceutical problem that is top of mind at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind. Chemistry professor Toni Barstis and her ...More
    3 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • New Malaria Test Kit Boosts Elimination Efforts Worldwide
    New Malaria Test Kit Boosts Elimination Efforts Worldwide A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, ...More
    4 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Using Bacteria to Stop Malaria
    Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State University, however, demonstrates that they also can be equally adept in curing diseases such as malaria. A study in the current issue of Science shows that the transmission of ...More
    May 13, 2013
    Posted in News
  • New Malaria Tool Shows Which Kids at Greatest Risk
    Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a test that can determine which children with malaria are likely to develop cerebral malaria, a much more life-threatening form of the disease. The screening tool could be a game-changer in resource-limited rural ...More
    May 9, 2013
    Posted in News
  • FDA Partnership to Protect Against Counterfeit Anti-Malarial Medicines
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a public-private partnership to help identify counterfeit or substandard anti-malarial medicines, including falsified products, with the deployment of the FDA-developed Counterfeit Detection Device, called CD-3. Malaria kills ...More
    April 24, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Fighting Disease From Within the Mosquito May Halt Debgue, Yellow Fever, Malaria
    Scientists have revealed a new technique to introduce disease-blocking bacteria into mosquitoes, with promising results that may halt the spread of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and potentially malaria. When infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, mosquitoes are ...More
    April 10, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Mosquito Genetic Complexity May Take a Bite Out of Efforts to Control Malaria
    A surprising research discovery in mosquitoes could affect future prospects for malaria control. A team of scientists from West Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom found that the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, which was thought to be splitting into two completely ...More
    April 1, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Identify New Class of Malaria Compounds
    A group of researchers from 16 institutions around the world has identified a new class of anti-malarial compounds that target multiple stages of the malaria parasite's life cycle. These compounds could potentially be developed into drugs that treat and prevent malaria ...More
    March 21, 2013
    Posted in News
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