13-08-09 An investigational malaria vaccine has been found to be safe, to generate an immune system response, and to offer protection against malaria infection in healthy adults, according to the results of an early-stage clinical trial published Aug. 8 in t...

13-05-23 Malaria-carrying mosquitoes appear to be manipulated by the parasites they carry, but this manipulation may simply be part of the mosquitoes' immune response, according to Penn State entomologists. Normally, after a female mosquito ingests a blood m...

13-05-17 Melbourne scientists have made the surprise discovery that malaria parasites can 'talk' to each other -- a social behaviour to ensure the parasite's survival and improve its chances of being transmitted to other humans. The finding could provide a n...

13-05-10 Scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have established an inheritable bacterial infection in malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes that renders them imm...

12-10-19 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have determined a new mechanism by which the mosquitoes' immune system can respond with specificity（特异性） to infections with various pathogens, including the parasite that causes...

12-10-08 An African mosquito species with a deadly capacity to transmit malaria（疟疾） has a perplexing evolutionary history, according to discovery by researchers at the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech. Closely related African mosquito speci...

12-07-17 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have genetically modified a bacterium commonly found in the mosquito's midgut（中肠） and found that the parasite that causes malaria in people does not survive in mosquitoes carrying the m...

12-02-03 Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports. 一项研究显示，世界上由疟疾引起的死亡人数，可能是先前预计的两倍之多。 The research, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggest 1.24 milli...

11-11-11 The route all strains of the most deadly malaria parasite use to enter red blood cells has been identified by researchers at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge. 剑桥大学桑格研究院的研究人员发现了绝大多数致命疟原虫进入人体红细胞的途径。 The scientists...

11-10-27 A new malaria（疟疾） vaccine has been created to target different forms of the disease and help those most at risk. The parasites that cause malaria come in many different forms. This new vaccine works by triggering a range of antibodies to fight t...