The insects, in turn, offered a habitat for part of the life cycle of the malaria parasite. The sickle cell gene may have been brought to Africa by people migrating from Southern Arabia and India ...

Reporting in Cell, Singh and colleagues show that ... An obligatory step during the malaria infection cycle is the development of Plasmodium sporozoites into thousands of merozoites in each ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

inside the malaria parasite. Together, they keep the cell alive and allow it to continue its reproductive cycle inside the human body. As most antimalarial drugs work by interrupting various parts ...

In order to survive, the malaria parasite has to break down a part of the red blood cell called hemoglobin, but this results in toxic by-products which need to be processed and contained by the ...

Malaria is endemic in many parts of the developing world. It causes around two million deaths a year and has a huge impact both personally and econimically. An animated sequence describes the ...