New data published in The Journal of Immunology uncovered the role of Plasmodium falciparum infection (malaria) in the development of Burkitt lymphoma (BL), the most common childhood cancer in ...

Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes—a major vector of malaria in South America—are evolving in response to insecticides, which may ...

The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another ...

Malaria is a life-threatening illness spread through mosquitos. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2023 there were over 200 million cases of Malaria with 76% of all deaths being ...

GenVec, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNVC) today announced that it has signed a research collaboration agreement with the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology (LMIV) of the National Institute of Allergy ...

Burkitt lymphoma, a cancer that impacts a subset of immune cells called B cells, develops most often in children and young adults. Patients with Burkitt lymphoma exhibit elevated levels of a protein ...

New research co-led by WEHI (Parkville, Australia) and Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) has uncovered how the human immune system fights Plasmodium vivax, paving the way for the first effective ...

A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of a malaria vaccine in Kenya. The vaccine (Mosquirix) is the world's first ...

An international team of researchers has investigated how the malaria parasite reproduces. The findings could have implications for the development of future medicines.

A child waits with her mother to receive health services at the Maluku General Reference Hospital in Maluku, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country has the second highest malaria burden in the ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas—it’s a global threat that ...