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Malaria
Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. There are two types of malaria: uncomplicated and severe malaria. Malaria is a disease that is spread by the female Anopheles mosquito.
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FEB 08, 2017Microbiology
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Researchers are always on the lookout for new antibiotics, particularly ones that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...Written By: Kerry EvansJAN 20, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
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A sip or two of alcohol at an office party seems innocent enough. However, for one woman who was particularly sensitive ...JAN 02, 2017Microbiology
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A mutation that confers resistance to malaria is now linked to cancer metastasis. This finding illustrates evolutionary ...DEC 20, 2016Neuroscience
At the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA many new research projects were presented, data was disc ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 18, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
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A specific chromosomal rearrangement in the mosquito genome seems to be responsible for a mosquito's preference for catt ...Written By: Jennifer EllisSEP 16, 2016Videos
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After performing the first genome wide screen of Apicomplexa, researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 30, 2016Genetics & Genomics
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Donating blood is a friendly gesture by the public to give to those who are in need, but there are some restrictions in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 13, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Gene drive is a term used to describe the preferential dissemination of some versions of a gene to future generations.&n ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
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Would you be able to survive 2.5 million years ago? At the time, Earth was in the Pleistocene epoch. This geological epo ...Written By: Julianne Chiaet
FEB 08, 2017
Microbiology
Salmonella is typically associated with food poisoning in the United States, but Salmonella infections in sub-Saharan Af
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 08, 2017
Microbiology
Researchers are always on the lookout for new antibiotics, particularly ones that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 20, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Visit any modern diagnostic labs and you’ll likely find at least a few centrifuges, machines that exploit centrifu
...
JAN 19, 2017
Cancer
Off-label use of an antimalarial drug saved the life of a 26-year-old patient dying of treatment-resistant brain cancer.
...
JAN 18, 2017
Microbiology
Malaria has been a global health problem for ages; it comes from a parasite that is over 130 million years old and is re
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
A sip or two of alcohol at an office party seems innocent enough. However, for one woman who was particularly sensitive
...
JAN 02, 2017
Microbiology
In a study published in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers demonstrated that an herbal remedy used for centuries in Ch
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 01, 2017
Microbiology
Vaccines are meant to preemptively protect the body from infection, and while it is possible to produce such protective
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2016
Cancer
A mutation that confers resistance to malaria is now linked to cancer metastasis. This finding illustrates evolutionary
...
DEC 20, 2016
Neuroscience
At the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA many new research projects were presented, data was disc
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 18, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
For people who hate to swallow pills or just can’t remember to take their mediation as regularly as they should, s
...
NOV 15, 2016
Cancer
Bacteria have all but hogged the limelight in our recent understanding of microbiomes and how these ecosystems influence
...
OCT 20, 2016
Videos
Many plant-based substances can be used for medicinal purposes. Everyone's grandma has at least one or two household rem
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 19, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Crystallography Solves Unknown Structure of Novel Mosquito Toxin That Can Help Control Zika
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 30, 2016
Microbiology
This just in, there’s a fungus that makes mosquitoes more susceptible to malaria. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 21, 2016
Videos
With the current Zika scare in the Americas, it may be easy to forget about other mosquito-related threats - mainly, mal
...
SEP 19, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
A specific chromosomal rearrangement in the mosquito genome seems to be responsible for a mosquito's preference for catt
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 16, 2016
Videos
Science portrayed in movies is, unsurprisingly, usually farfetched and largely separated from reality. However unrealist
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2016
Microbiology
After performing the first genome wide screen of Apicomplexa, researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 30, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
In the world of malaria infection, Plasmodium falciparum parasites will always be queen to their less lethal cousin, Pla
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 23, 2016
Videos
Donating blood is a friendly gesture by the public to give to those who are in need, but there are some restrictions in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 13, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Gene drive is a term used to describe the preferential dissemination of some versions of a gene to future generations.&n
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new study report found that at least 2,234 people contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from blood transfu
...
MAY 28, 2016
Videos
Would you be able to survive 2.5 million years ago? At the time, Earth was in the Pleistocene epoch. This geological epo
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet