A new drug target may offer a way to keep the malaria parasite from spreading, researchers say.
An extra barrier layer above malaria bed nets significantly improves their performance, a new study shows.
Reworking molecules originally designed to fight the skin disease psoriasis could pave the way for a new drug to combat malaria.
Mosquitoes are pretty good at killing off the parasite that causes malaria. Now scientists know more about how they do it.
A new test detects malaria drug resistance with only a tiny sample tube, a laptop, and a power source. The work could save lives.
Targeting newly discovered proteins key to the malaria parasite's life cycle could offer another weapon in the fight against the disease.
"There's been a big focus on mosquito behavior. But you have to look at mosquitoes and people together to really understand what is going on..."
A new vaccine for deadly pregnancy malaria is safe for people, results of the first clinical trial in humans show.
In the fight against mosquitoes and the diseases they spread, researchers may have discovered a way to keep them from reproducing.
Malaria kills a child every two minutes. A new non-invasive "spit test" could help eradicate it.
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