This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One question that quickly surfaces is whether ...

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 ...

A large genomic study in Cameroon finds that people with sickle cell trait are infected almost exclusively by a genetically ...

The study of non-falciparum malaria parasites through molecular epidemiology has sharpened our understanding of transmission dynamics, population structure and the burden of under-recognised ...

A case report in BMC Infectious Diseases describes the first evidence of a Plasmodium falciparum–Plasmodium ovale ...

University of South Florida researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax), a malaria parasite that infects millions of people in Central and South ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax), a malaria parasite that infects millions of people in Central and South America and Southeast Asia. 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 ...

Malaria parasites proliferate in an unusual way. Rather than dividing into two daughter cells like human cells, they first amplify their genetic material tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold ...

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 ...