Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...

The Gauteng Health Department is reminding residents to take preventive steps before visiting malaria-endemic areas and to ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms and, in some cases, fatal infections in their hosts. “Overall, parasites ...

This study provides valuable insights into microtubule remodeling during liver-stage Plasmodium berghei development, demonstrating that deletion of the alpha-tubulin C-terminal tail impairs parasite ...

In previous studies, researchers have investigated the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to create gene drives in mosquitos. Gene drives are genetic elements introduced into the genome that ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite ...

Researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over the past 5,500 years, identifying trade, warfare, and colonialism as major catalysts for its dispersal.

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, according to new research. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Within the human host, the symptoms of malaria are caused by the replication of malaria parasites within erythrocytes. Growth inside the erythrocyte exposes the parasites to the normal surveillance of ...