Requires just one dose and appears twice as effective as existing regimen Scientists are reporting development of a new malaria drug that, in laboratory tests, has been twice as effective as the best current medicine [...]

Promising new compound becomes the first stemming from an African–MMV collaboration to enter preclinical development A recently discovered compound from the aminopyridine class, code named MMV390048, caused quite a stir at the MMV Expert Scientific [...]

“The ultimate goal is to completely prevent the mosquito from spreading the malaria parasite to people.” Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have genetically modified a bacterium commonly found in the mosquito’s midgut [...]

This is an important advance in antimalaria drugs A powerful new drug to treat malaria — the invention of a University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy researcher — will help take the bite [...]

Malaria could be curtailed by the creatures Property owners who need to banish destructive woodworm could have an eight-legged alternative to chemical sprays that are potentially dangerous and only partially effective. They could enlist the [...]

Advance provides genetic options for controlling spread of deadly disease Mosquitoes bred to be unable to infect people with the malaria parasite are an attractive approach to helping curb one of the world’s most pressing [...]

For many of us, mosquitoes are an irritating pest that can ruin any number of outdoor activities. For many others, however, they are also spreaders of malaria – a disease which infected approximately 216 million [...]

An inexpensive way to protect billions of people   Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the [...]

Potential to revolutionize point-of-care medicine You wouldn’t know it from appearances, but a metal cube the size of a toaster, created at the University of Alberta, is capable of performing the same genetic tests as [...]

Fiddle with a goat’s genes a little and all of a sudden its milk has some impressive properties. One lab in Texas has a herd of a goats that can cure malaria a lot cheaper [...]

Eliminating malaria might then prove impossible Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and Myanmar was [...]

The new drug appears to have no side effects. An anti-malaria drug developed in New Zealand has passed its first pre-clinical test, raising hopes for the more than one million people killed by the disease [...]