Tracey Lamb, PhD, professor of pathology, is the University of Utah’s first National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow. In this role, she will spend time with ...

Cerebral malaria represents a severe neurological complication of Plasmodium falciparum infections and remains a major public health challenge despite advances in antimalarial therapies. The condition ...

Antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite could lead to new monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines for malaria. A novel class of antibodies that binds to a ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system. The ability of the human malaria ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system. The ability of the human malaria ...

Both sickle cell disease (SCD) and malaria are potentially dangerous conditions that affect red blood cells (RBCs). While certain forms of SCD may increase the risk of severe complications, one type ...

Malaria infection threatens millions of people worldwide. Sequestering of Plasmodium-infected erythrocytes within the blood vessels of the brain may lead to a more severe form of disease called ...

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 ...

1 Vascular Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2042, Australia. Cerebral malaria (CM) is a complex of syndromes relating to the ...

Amina Dawd, 36, strokes one of her resting children's hair as two of her other children sleep under the protective bednets. The children sleeping without the net will still gain some protection from ...

Understanding the origins of emerging diseases - as well as more established disease agents -- is critical to gauge future human infection risks and find new treatment and prevention approaches. This ...