Malaria

Malaria prophylaxis-treatment for children both saves lives and reduces cost, shows a new study

Model helps predict the genetic resistance of malaria to antimalarial drugs

Researchers begin further testing of two inexpensive and effective antimalarial drug candidates

Promising results from the first in-human trials of genetically engineered malaria vaccines

An international study reveals how future climate change could affect malaria transmission in Africa over the next century

Byproduct of bacteria that help shipworms digest the wood they eat has been proven to kill causal parasites for some of the world's most common infections

The need for alternative safe chemistry to use in controlling mosquitoes is important as they become increasingly resistant to commonly used insecticides

Researchers from Imperial College London helped schoolchildren test their family soup broths for activity against the malaria parasite

In a recent genome-wide gene deletion study on malaria parasites, researchers were able to identify many new targets in the pathogen

DEET may chemically 'cloak' humans from malaria-carrying mosquitoes, rather than repelling the insects