New research on avian malaria, which has decimated Hawaii's beloved birds, explains how non-native birds play a key role in transmission and contribute to the widespread distribution of the disease.

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body.

An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for ...

Advances in vaccine technology, antibody therapies, and genetic surveillance are giving researchers new tools to fight ...

Researchers have developed a novel approach to analyzing malaria parasite genomes to reveal how antigenic variation arises. Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European ...

A new study, jointly led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases in Cameroon, has detected a part in the DNA for a key enzyme, known ...

An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Nearly half the world’s population lives in regions where malaria is endemic, with the parasite Plasmodium falciparum accounting for approximately 95% of malaria-related deaths ...

Sexual biology may be the key to uncovering why Anopheles mosquitoes are unique in their ability to transmit malaria to humans, according to researchers at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health ...

BALTIMORE, Sept. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean, Mark T. Gladwin, MD, announced today the appointment of distinguished parasitologist and immunologist Stefan ...

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

What am I looking at? This is a colored scanning electron microscopy image of a human red blood cell infected with the parasite that causes malaria. The infected cell is blue (1), and the uninfected ...