All Articles Tagged As: parasites

Scans show immune cells intercepting parasites (12/13/2008)

Researchers may have identified one of the body's earliest responses to a group of parasites that causes illness in developing nations and are now infecting US soldiers on patrol in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...> Full Article

Delaying evolution of drug resistance in malaria parasite possible (9/7/2008)

A new study offers strong support for a method that effectively delays the evolution of drug resistance in malaria parasites ...> Full Article

Parasite vaccines within reach (7/6/2008)

Even though parasites are complex creatures, the mammalian immune response to them is surprisingly simple, leading researchers to predict that creating vaccines for parasitic diseases such as malaria may be more straightforward than initially thought. ...> Full Article

Researchers block the transmission of malaria in animal tests (6/12/2008)

By disrupting the potassium channel of the malaria parasite, a team of researchers has been able to prevent the malaria parasites from forming in mosquitoes and has thereby broken the cycle of infection during recent animal tests. ...> Full Article

Protein plays key role in transmitting deadly malaria parasite (5/31/2008)

The protein MAEBL is critical for completing the life cycle of malaria parasites in mosquitoes, allowing the insects to transmit the potentially deadly infection to humans ...> Full Article

Manipulating the immune system like a parasite (4/14/2008)

One day it may be possible to mimic the tactics used by parasites to trick the body into accepting transplanted tissues or organs ...> Full Article

Mutant parasites offer researchers hope in fight against malaria (2/15/2008)

Parasites that cause malaria and other significant diseases are clever squatters that lurk in the body, waiting for an opportune time to assert themselves, scientists have learned. They survive by finding the right place to hide, stealing food from their hosts and evading the body's immune system. ...> Full Article

Controlling Schistosomiasis: Buffalo Or Snails? (1/24/2008)

A parasitic infection common in China and Southeast Asia could be effectively reduced by controlling snail populations, according to new research. ...> Full Article

Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite (12/27/2007)

Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Researchers say this development is a step towards developing future methods of preventing the transmission of malaria. ...> Full Article

Can interacting pathogens explain disease patterns? (12/18/2007)

The way in which parasites interact with each other could help predict more successfully when infectious cyclical diseases in humans are likely to occur, according to a new collaborative study. ...> Full Article

Genomic study of malaria parasite unearths surprising behaviors (12/1/2007)

The malaria parasite has been studied for decades, but surprisingly little is known about how it behaves in humans to cause disease. Now an international team including scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has for the first time measured which of the parasite's genes are turned on or off during actual infection in humans, unearthing surprising behaviors and opening a window on the most critical aspects of parasite biology. ...> Full Article

In blood, malaria's secrets revealed (12/1/2007)

Study of malaria parasite in patients' blood uncovers biological states never before glimpsed in laboratory-based research ...> Full Article

New system to lead to safer drugs for tropical disease Leishmaniasis (10/4/2007)

The fight against the deadly tropical disease Leishmaniasis, also known as black fever, has been boosted by scientists whose new screening system has raised the possibility of new, safer drugs. ...> Full Article

Researchers discover how human body fights off African parasite (9/10/2007)

Discovery could lead to new methods of controlling similar parasites that cause endemic diseases. ...> Full Article

'Sugar coating' clue to how parasitic worms dupe immune system (9/9/2007)

Sugars secreted by a parasitic worm could provide the key to how it infects the human body and how its eggs escape to spread the deadly disease schistosomiasis, according to new research. ...> Full Article

CDC will Provide Investigational New Medicine for Treatment of Severe Malaria (8/7/2007)

CDC and Walter Reed collaboration fosters the availability of artesunate for emergency use ...> Full Article

Scientists Identify A New Mechanism In The Malaria Parasite To Help It Adapt To Infected Individuals (8/5/2007)

Research has been conducted on the genes of the parasite that play a role during the invasion of red blood cells, as these are very clear targets to develop vaccines against the disease. ...> Full Article

Mutant Parasites, Unable To Infect Hosts, Highlight Virulence Genes (5/31/2007)

With a single approach, microbiologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have identified dozens of clues to how human parasites may infect their hosts. ...> Full Article

Toxoplasmosis Infection Trick Revealed By Scientists (5/15/2007)

Scientists have provided new insight into how the parasite which causes toxoplasmosis invades human cells, says new research published today in The EMBO Journal. ...> Full Article