As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a ...

Antibodies from malaria-exposed individuals have been found to target a diverse family of proteins from the malaria-causing parasite. These proteins cause severe disease by enabling infected blood ...

A parasitic infection common in Latin America is threatening the U.S. blood system. The infection, Chagas disease, is still rare in North America. There have been two cases in Canada transmitted by ...

What am I looking at? This is a colored scanning electron microscopy image of a human red blood cell infected with the parasite that causes malaria. The infected cell is blue (1), and the uninfected ...

Researchers have developed a new antimalarial drug candidate designed to address the growing challenge of drug resistance and ...

A health worker shows a malaria rapid test kit after collecting blood sample from a resident during a drive to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases in Ahmedabad, India, October 26, 2018.