Tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has revealed a comprehensive strategy aimed at eradicating malaria, a disease that has plagued humanity for centuries. Gates’ plan includes several ...

Technology originating in the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design uses AI to rapidly identify ...

The idea that bad air rising from swamps caused malaria had a good run: at least two and a half millennia, from the time of the ancient Greeks until the mid-19th century. But as Louis Pasteur and ...

Malaria is a deadly disease caused by a parasite spread by the Anopheles species of mosquito. The condition tends to be more prevalent in warmer regions and those near the equator, including sub ...

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far, no ...

It was not until the latter half of 1971, when pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was rereading the Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang as ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt. But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best ...

This month marks a year since the malaria vaccine rollout began. Here's what we still need in order to beat a disease as old as ancient Egypt, says Azra Ghani ...