Shifting global health leadership, AI, and climate change are set to shape the health agenda this year, amid funding cuts and ...

"Mosquito-borne diseases threaten public health and food security," the scientists stated. For instance, about one in four ...

One year ago, the PHG Foundation report, Host genomics: lessons for infectious diseases, highlighted the promise of host ...

Mosquitoes spread diseases such as malaria and dengue, and these diseases affect billions of people worldwide. Many public health plans assume that pathogens borne by mosquitoes spread over long ...

When US vaccine advisers meet this week, they will turn their spotlight on little-known ingredients that are crucial to the effectiveness of many vaccines: adjuvants. Adjuvants are compounds that ...

The illustration shows that, in its early stages, the unicellular malaria pathogen Plasmodium has a slender and curved shape, which is responsible for its characteristic helical movements. With ...

With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the malaria parasite. After penetrating the skin, the pathogen moves with helical ...

NEW YORK – With the publication of new validation data on its diagnostic test for malaria, Imperial College London spinout ProtonDx is continuing its path toward further commercialization of its ...

Monthly malaria case counts from active surveillance in two adjacent regions of Kilifi County, Kenya, between 1998 and 2017. Junju (red) maintained sustained malaria transmission throughout the study ...

LMU parasitologists have shown how Toxoplasma recycles its cell envelope – and revealed an important difference to the malaria pathogen. According to estimates, about a third of the world’s population ...