Malaria

News Malaria

• Smartphone lab finds coronavirus in saliva
  

  Engineers with the University of Cincinnati have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into your phone, connecting it automatically to a doctor's office through a custom app UC developed. The lab the size of a credit card can diagnose infectious diseases such as coronavirus, malaria, HIV or Lyme di more

• Breakthrough in malaria research
  

  An international scientific consortium led by the cell biologists Volker Heussler from the University of Bern and Oliver Billker from the Umeå University in Sweden has for the first time systematically investigated the genome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium throughout its life cycle in a large-sc more

• Malaria pathogens under the X-ray microscope
  

  Malaria is one of the most threatening infectious diseases in the world. An international team has now been able to investigate malaria pathogens in red blood cells in vivo using the BESSY II X-ray microscope and the ALBA and ESRF synchrotron sources. The scientists reveal the mechanisms used by act more

Videos Malaria

2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 goes to William Campbell & Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria". more

Publications Malaria

• Uncomplicating malaria

  Malaria Severe malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum . Infections can result in organ failure and life-threatening hematological or metabolic abnormalities. Lee et al. sequenced patient and parasite transcriptomes from 46 P. falciparum –infected Gambian children to better more

• Surface antibody maturation

  Immunology Affinity maturation in B cells generates antibodies with increasingly enhanced antigen-binding properties. Imkeller et al. investigated the maturation of human B cells that express protective antibodies against the circumsporozoite protein of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium more

• Early life malaria exposure and academic performance

  by Ninja Ritter Klejnstrup, Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Sam Jones, John Rand Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. It is also a dynamic contributor to poverty through its effects on children’s cognitive development. This paper examines the degree to which malaria in e more