Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to ...

New discoveries about the malaria parasite made by researchers at Columbia and Drexel universities could change the way malaria is treated in the future. As malaria parasites around the world become ...

It is often thought that functions of the human immune defense system are confined to white blood cells (WBCs). However, phagocytes, leukocytes, and macrophages, all of which circulate in our ...

Sendai [Japan], Dec 29 (ANI): Researchers have developed a robust network link map on malaria transactions between human host cells. Malaria parasites transform healthy red blood cells into rigid ...

Scientists may have found a critical weakness in Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. Researchers say the discovery provides a promising target for new malaria therapies. The ...

Sickle cell anemia causes pain, fatigue and delayed growth, all because of a lack of enough healthy red blood cells. And yet genetic mutations that cause it — recessive genes for the oxygen-carrying ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis have designed a drug-like compound which effectively blocks a critical step in the malaria parasite life cycle ...

Malaria parasites can sense a molecule produced by approaching immune cells and then use it to protect themselves from destruction, according to new findings published today in eLife. The study, led ...