"We now understand that Plasmodium actin filaments are very different from other actin filaments, like for example from those found in humans, and that they are assembled in a very different manner.

The quest to decipher the complex molecular events underpinning cell polarity and organelle segregation during eukaryotic cell division presents a formidable challenge. A predominant focus on ...

The notion that Anopheles mosquitoes inject Plasmodium sporozoites into the dermis of the host, rather than directly into the blood circulation, was first suggested in the 1930s 1 and has since ...

DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one of the two most common forms of the disease, Plasmodium vivax, from Europe to the Americas during the ...

Over the past several decades, malaria diagnosis has changed very little. After taking a blood sample from a patient, a technician smears the blood across a glass slide, stains it with a special dye, ...

The main symptoms of malaria—fever, fatigue, aches and pain—usually appear 10 to 15 days after the parasite that causes the disease, a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, is injected into the body by ...