Buehler: On Malaria Time

Buehler: On Malaria Time

Patients with malaria have symptoms that cycle, writes Jake Buehler for ScienceNews. But the regular return of fever and chills every 24 to 72 hours is not dictated by the internal clock of the human host. Jake reports that the unicellular Plasmodium parasites seem to...
Thomasy: Spit Take

Thomasy: Spit Take

At Massive Science, a forum for scientists’ stories, Hannah Thomasy posts about an idea for a new malaria vaccine. The target is the first step in infection: the mosquito bite that transmits the malaria parasite. The vaccine won’t target the parasite but the...

McCarthy: White Cells v. Malaria

Michael McCarthy, reporting for the University of Washington Health Sciences NewsBeat, sildenafil uso pediatrico talks with a researcher whose big malaria discovery started by thinking cialisgeneriquefr24.com small. Instead of looking at the most obvious immune cells...

Phillips: In the Dark about Resistance

The parasite that causes malaria can become drug resistant, writes Melissa Lee Phillips  for Nature News. This resistance is associated with mutations in the parasite’s genome in a region that contains several candidate genes. No surprises there. But it’s how...