Epigenetic inhibitors as a promising new antimalarial intervention strategy? A new study identifies an inhibitor of gene regulation that specifically kills the malaria pathogen.

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its ...

Scientists are exploring the key proteins and metabolic pathways in Plasmodium falciparum to develop new drugs to prevent malaria. Pink block arrows indicate the steps inhibited by antimalarial ...

It illustrates balanced polymorphism because carriers are resistant to malaria, an infection by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum that causes cycles of chills and fever. The parasite spends the ...

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its ...

which incorporates a fusion protein comprising part of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein (a sporozoite surface protein) and the hepatitis B virus surface antigen. When used in ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite ...

As reported in Nature, Plasmodium, the parasite that causes the disease ... existed for the most dangerous species, Plasmodium falciparum, for any time period before the 20th century.

Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment. Natalie Slivinski This person does ...