Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

(CNN) — Abdoulaye Diabate faced a life-threatening bout of malaria when he was just five years old. Diabate narrowly survived the mosquito-borne disease, but cousins ages three and four were not as ...

Testing the DNA of antimicrobial-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in the blood of travelers from malaria-endemic regions may help researchers monitor how drug resistance changes over time, a study from ...

People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago. People living in ancient ...

Scientists have long dreamed of quashing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, which alone kills more than 608,000 people per year. Their inventions – notably insecticide-treated bed nets – have ...

today announced that researchers at Ehime University in Japan and their collaborators have developed a Vaxfectin®-formulated DNA vaccine candidate with the potential to prevent transmission of malaria ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Malaria appears to have jumped to humans from gorillas, and the parasite may have spread globally from a single gorilla to a single human, researchers reported on Wednesday. DNA ...

People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago, a new study reveals. DNA ...