The Plasmodium falciparum parasite is responsible for most malaria infections and almost all deaths caused by the disease worldwide.

The discovery could potentially make malaria treatment significantly more effective for the 3.2 billion people at risk.

A new malaria vaccine candidate has been found to generate robust immune response while significantly delaying parasitemia in 59 per cent o...

Malaria parasites cause an inflammatory reaction that sabotages our body's ability to protect itself against the deadly disease, scientists...

The need for a vaccine to control malaria has become important because of emerging resistance to existing anti-malarial pills.

The parasite that causes malaria infects red blood cells and liver cells, while Burkitt's lymphoma originates in infection-fighting white b...

The scientists gave infected red blood cells an unusual amino acid and used luminol's glow to trigger the chemical, killing the parasite.

Experts say, P.vivax is proving to be an extremely difficult parasite as it does not readily respond to the existing control measures

Dr Mahmood Alam, from Lohardaga in Jharkhand, is among the authors of the new study published in the journal 'Nature Communications' .

The spread of malaria parasites resistant to the drug artemisinin into India would pose a serious threat to the global control and eradicat...

Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite called Plasmodium that spreads from person to person through mosquito bites.

The team are working to design molecules that target NMT more potently, and hope to start clinical trials of potential treatments.

The study warns that R&D investments are critical, given the emergence of drug resistance in the malaria parasite and insecticide resistanc...

The disease is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted to humans by the infectious bite of an Anopheles mosquito.

Australian researchers said that a new drug that stops the malaria parasite from using vitamin B1 to multiply is now plausible.

India has developed a powerful new malaria drug - an alternative to the global drug of choice Artemisinin - that promises to be a major boo...

A new research has warned that drug-resistant malaria parasites on the border of Thailand & Myanmar may spread to India.