Resistance to antimalarial drugs is a growing concern with research indicating that resistance to first-line treatments has ...

Uganda’s malaria burden is staggering, with some areas such as Apac District recording the world’s highest density of ...

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its ...

After this phase, they re-enter the bloodstream, infecting red blood cells (RBCs) and causing malaria’s characteristic fever and chills. As the parasite multiplies asexually within RBCs ...

Epigenetic inhibitors as a promising new antimalarial intervention strategy? A new study identifies an inhibitor of gene ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated.

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...

Cerebral malaria is one of a number of clinical syndromes associated with infection by human malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The etiology of cerebral malaria derives from sequestration ...

Your blood smears look really bad,'" Stokes recalled. Leukemia, a disease of the blood and bone marrow, disrupts the body's ability to produce normal blood cells. According to the American Cancer ...

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Functional characterization of PfFBXO1, utilizing cell biology, genetics, and biochemistry, demonstrates essential roles for this protein in formation of the inner membrane complex in asexual ...

Leukopenia is when you have an abnormally low number of white blood cells (leukocytes). A low white blood cell count may or may not cause symptoms, but can result in serious health complications since ...