New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line of defense ...

Targeting a parasite's DNA could be a more effective way to combat malaria, new research from the University of Sheffield has revealed. Malaria is a serious infection which is spread by mosquitoes.

For more than 400 years, the rumor persisted that Francesco de Medici was murdered. In 1587, the Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife died suddenly; rumor had it that his own brother had poisoned him.

A new study has detected a DNA marker in a gene encoding a key enzyme known as cytochrome P450 that helps mosquitoes to break down and survive exposure to pyrethroids, the main insecticides used for ...

People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago. People living in ancient ...

For 440 years, the sudden deaths of Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and his wife, Bianca Cappello, in October 1587 fed one of history's most persistent murder rumors: that Cardinal Ferdinando de' ...

A new study, jointly led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) in Cameroon, has detected a DNA marker in a gene encoding for a key enzyme, ...

Scientists have developed a technique to rapidly and reliably detect genetic changes in malaria parasites in Ghana, using just a gaming laptop and portable MinION sequencer from Oxford Nanopore. The ...

They've used the very thing that causes malaria as a vaccine.

People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago, a new study reveals. DNA ...

Julia Ball pulls DNA and RNA from rhesus monkey bone marrow cells to verify gene editing in the laboratory of Dr. John Tisdale, a Senior Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's ...