A team of Kenyan scientists has found four new variants of the malaria parasite in eight counties across western Kenya that are linked to reduced effectiveness of frontline malaria drugs, ...

Dar es Salaam. As the world marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Wednesday, February 11, under the theme From Vision to Impact: Redefining STEM (science, technology, ...

Landmark findings from a major malaria clinical trial led by Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) and international collaborators have confirmed the safety and effectiveness of two Plasmodium ...

Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 ...

In 2007, molecular biologist Thierry Diagana, head of global health biomedical research at Novartis, and his colleagues were searching for fresh drugs against malaria, medicines that the parasites had ...

Antibodies that bind to a previously untargeted portion of the malaria parasite could lead to new monoclonal antibody treatments and vaccines for malaria. A novel class of antibodies that binds to a ...

Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics ...

Law enforcement is evaluating the impact of a suspected biolab at a Las Vegas residence. SWAT officers from the Las Vegas ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Tuesday said the suspected biological research lab found in Las Vegas poses an “enormous problem ...

LAS VEGAS ( KLAS) – A possible biological laboratory found at a home in Las Vegas on Saturday may be connected to a similar ...