Plasmodium falciparum causes malaria in humans by multiplying first in the liver cells and then in red blood cells. Merozoites or daughter parasites are released as the host cells are destroyed to ...

Calcium is essential for the correct functioning of the cell and requires regulation to avoid high concentrations causing cell death. Calcium ions are important for cell signaling as the binding of ...

When a person is bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito, sporozoites of malarial parasites are injected into the blood stream. Inside the blood, the sporozoites circulate before entering the ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a synthetic compound that has the potential to treat malaria and block its transmission.

The evolutionary path of the deadliest human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, has been revealed for the first time. This parasite is a member of the Laverania parasite family that only infect ...

Several new malaria drugs under development share a common feature: they promote an influx of sodium ions into Plasmodium parasites that have invaded red blood cells and multiply there. A study ...

KAE609 (cipargamin; formerly NITD609, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases) is a new synthetic antimalarial spiroindolone analogue with potent, dose-dependent antimalarial activity against asexual ...

Malaria is the most common mosquito-borne disease in India. It is caused when Anopheles mosquito containing malaria virus bites a person. It infects the red blood cells (RBCs) of the person which then ...

Comprehensive genetic mapping of Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic parasite that causes malaria, has revealed the genes required for malaria infection of the blood, and those driving drug resistance. By ...

Plasmodium Ovale is not a very common type of malaria that has been identified in a soldier in Kerala who is believed to have contracted in Sudan during his posting, where Plasmodium Ovale is endemic.