Dr Matthew Todd – leader of the Open Source Malaria consortium in Sydney, senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and Conversation author – was awarded one of three Accelerating Science Awards in Washington…
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The announcement that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) aims to register a malaria vaccine came on the same day Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for predicting the existence…
Malaria parasites that infect West African bats are closely related to parasites which are used to model human malaria in…
As a young civil engineer in the 1950s, my grandfather was posted to Khartoum in the Sudan, tasked with helping to build a new water supply, drains and sewers for the city. Over the years, this system…
Several vaccines for malaria have been developed over the past few decades, but none offer complete protection. Now, for the first time, US researchers have developed a vaccine that protects 100% of those…
“You cannot send children aged under seven to Manus Island because of the issues of inoculation - you can’t do it.” - Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison, press conference, 21 July. Scott Morrison…
Cerebral malaria, or malaria of the brain, means being deeply unconscious with perpetual cycles of seizures and spasms. It can cause death, or often disability. About 600,000 people suffer this terrible…
Malaria hits rural dwellers in poor countries the hardest. Those bitten by the wrong mosquito often do not know for many days that they have contracted malaria. Some have little or no access to doctors…
About half of the world’s population are at risk of contracting malaria. In 2011, there were 26m reported cases and more than 100,000 deaths. Children are especially vulnerable though the disease is both…
Global health campaigner Bill Gates is in Sydney today to lobby prime minister Julia Gillard to spend more money on global health, particularly the fight against malaria and polio. But while money may…
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have uncovered the malaria parasite’s ability to communicate with other malaria…
In Malaysia, disgruntlement and promise of change tends to result in the retention of the status quo. Enthusiastic reformers (pretenders or otherwise) are noisier rather than effective. Voters, at the…
Immature malaria parasites are 100 times less sensitive to artemisinin-based drugs than older parasites, a new study has…
A new class of antimalarial drug has been discovered, using spiroindolones to block a pump within the malaria parasites face…
New Australian research has, for the first time, shown exactly how blood cells called platelets kill the parasite that causes malaria infection and revealed a new reason why people from Africa are more…
Changing a patient’s diet could reduce the side-effects resulting from quinine treatment for malaria. A new study has found…
Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the malaria-causing parasite, plasmodium vivax. The parasite shows the…
A new drug compound has successfully cured malaria in mice models, according to University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers…
Researchers have developed a technique which determines the risk of infants in endemic countries developing clinical malaria…
A new anti-inflammatory drug that prevents the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage could help…
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