In previous work, the same lab identified a peptide that binds to mosquito epithelia. An excess of peptide can swamp out parasite–epithelial interactions, thus preventing the parasite from ...

Vega-Rodriguez and his team wanted to explore how mosquito saliva dampened blood clotting within the insect and the role that this played in parasite transmission. Blood clotting and the subsequent ...

Scientists made an incredible discovery not only treats malaria but takes down even the most drug-resistant parasites while ...

People are to be sent to mainland Europe to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its ...

Malaria is caused by a blood parasite called plasmodium, which has a life cycle that requires multiple hosts to grow and spread. The sexual reproduction stage of plasmodium happens in the intestine of ...

(Larners et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 2024) "These crippled parasites are administered through a mosquito bite and reach the human liver as usual," says vaccinologist Meta Roestenberg ...

A team of scientists at the University of Nottingham, have uncovered how the parasite that causes malaria ... is an unmistakable sign that a female mosquito is out on the hunt—for they, not ...