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10,000-year-old disease that haunted Greeks and Chinese, weakened Civil War soldiers and caused 5% of 20th century deaths may finally have a weakness; Indian researchers find breakthroughScientists from India and Britain have identified a protein called Ark1 that acts as a control switch in the malaria parasite's cell divisi...- Did malaria, not poison, kill the Medici brothers? New DNA evidence answers a 400-year-old mysteryCenturies-old rumors of Francesco de Medici's murder have been debunked by DNA analysis. Scientists discovered that both Francesco and his ...
- Monsoon Maladies: Malaria is more prevalent in the rainy season, 5 ways to stay safeDuring the monsoon season, heavy rainfall and increased humidity create ideal environments for mosquito breeding, especially among Anophele...
- 'New malaria vaccine found 100 per cent effective'The Plasmodium falciparum parasite is responsible for most malaria infections and almost all deaths caused by the disease worldwide.
- India among 4 nations that account for 81% deaths from p.vivaxThe report said in 2015, an estimated 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide a fall of 22 per cent since 2000 and of 14 per cent s...
- New drug target for malaria identifiedResearchers identified the drug target while studying the way in which the parasites Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, and Pla...
- New drug target for malaria identifiedMIT scientists have discovered a new drug target for treatment of the deadly malaria disease.
- Viagra may prevent malaria transmissionThe anti-impotence drug Viagra helps eliminate malaria from the blood circulation which may reduce transmission of the deadly parasite from...
- Drug-resistant malaria found near Indian borderThe spread of malaria parasites resistant to the drug artemisinin into India would pose a serious threat to the global control and eradicat...
- New drug combo therapy may treat malaria in children'Artemisinin-naphthoquine drug-combo should be considered for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in settings where multiple parasite sp...
- Scientists develop new method to diagnose malariaThe new method, which uses magnetic fields to detect the parasite's waste products in the blood of infected patients, is fast, reliable and...
- Cancer-fighting drugs might stop malaria earlyMalaria is caused by a single-celled parasite called Plasmodium that spreads from person to person through mosquito bites.
- Cocktail of proteins can lead to better malaria vaccine: StudyThe study says that a cocktail of AMA1 proteins from only a few different strains can overcome major limitations of an earlier designed ver...
- New finding could lead to better malaria treatmentThe team are working to design molecules that target NMT more potently, and hope to start clinical trials of potential treatments.
- New drug target to fight malaria identifiedThe disease is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted to humans by the infectious bite of an Anopheles mosquito.
- Ranbaxy gets CDSCO nod to sell malaria drug 'SynriamTM'"This approval makes SynriamTM one of the few therapies in the world that successfully treats both, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falcipa...
- Lives of compassionGood friend and fellow columnist Vithal C Nadkarni informed us here a couple of days back how the Dalai Lama brought the house down during ...
- India develops a synthetic anti-malaria drug as an alternative ArtemisininIndia has developed a powerful new malaria drug - an alternative to the global drug of choice Artemisinin - that promises to be a major boo...
- Here's how Malaria-causing parasite evades immune systemResearchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia, have found the evasion tactics of the malaria causing pa...
- IISc biochemists find effective anti-malarial agent: In a major breakthrough, biochemists of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have found that the anti-cancer drug and the inhibitor...
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