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Researcher’s nanoparticle key to new malaria vaccine

A self-assembling nanoparticle designed by a Univ. of Connecticut (UConn) professor is the key component of a potent new malaria vaccine that is showing promise in early tests. For years, scientists trying to develop a...

9 September, 2014

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The first malaria vaccine could be available in a year

After 31 years of research, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has filed for regulatory approval for the first-ever malaria vaccine–which also happens to be the first vaccine developed against a parasite. The clinical trial...

15 August, 2014

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Researchers move closer to disrupting malaria parasite development

Scientists undertaking a “Herculean study” in malaria parasite development recently announced that they are getting closer to disrupting the lifecycle of the parasite—one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Researchers...

18 July, 2014

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New vaccine approach imprisons malaria parasite in blood cells

Scientists seeking a vaccine against malaria, which kills a child every minute in Africa, have developed a promising new approach intended to imprison the disease-causing parasites inside the red blood cells they infect...

28 May, 2014

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Robot may help fight malaria

Most people kill a mosquito with a violent swat of the hand, but Yaroslav Tenzer is much more methodical — and tender. He needs the tiny pest’s body intact so he can harvest its salivary glands. Mosquito saliva is the...

12 May, 2014

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Researchers produce molecule to kill malaria without harming blood cells

A research team at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, published study results on Wednesday that revealed molecules toxic to Plasmodium falciparum but not human red blood cells, creating a way to combat malaria...

17 March, 2014

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Discovery may aid vaccine design for common form of malaria

A form of malaria common in India, Southeast Asia and South America attacks human red blood cells by clamping down on the cells with a pair of proteins, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St...

3 February, 2014

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E. Coli may offer cheap way to create a Malaria vaccine

Researchers have found a way to use E. coli bacteria to inexpensively manufacture a once hard-to-produce protein that is critical to the development of a malaria vaccine. Nirbhay Kumar, professor and chair of tropical...

24 January, 2014

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Building better Malaria vaccine possible through mixing right cocktail

The study, led by Sheetij Dutta, from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, USA, and colleagues, focused on a protein called AMA1 needed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite to invade blood cells and cause...

5 January, 2014

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Scientists develop vaccine that can prevent Malaria

Oxford scientists have developed a novel new malaria vaccine which can protect against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine has shown promising results in the first clinical trial to test whether it can...

2 December, 2013

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