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Scientists find ‘concerning’ flaw in malaria diagnostics

Written by | 21 Aug 2023

Current methods can vastly overestimate the rates that malaria parasites are multiplying in an infected person’s blood, which has important implications for determining how harmful they could be […]

A three-dose malaria vaccine shows safety, efficacy in West African adults

Written by | 8 Jan 2023

A three-dose regimen of a whole-parasite vaccine against malaria — called Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite (PfSPZ) vaccine — demonstrated safety and efficacy when tested in adults living in Burkina […]

Investigational malaria vaccine gives strong, lasting protection

Written by | 6 Jul 2021

Two U.S. Phase 1 clinical trials of a novel candidate malaria vaccine have found that the regimen conferred unprecedentedly high levels of durable protection when volunteers were later […]

Malaria vaccine becomes first to achieve WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal

Written by | 29 Apr 2021

Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have today reported findings from a Phase IIb trial of a candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, which demonstrated high-level efficacy […]

Tracking malaria in humans is a powerful way to detect how the malaria parasite causes a range of infection outcomes in its host

Written by | 9 Apr 2021

The study, found some remarkable differences in the way individuals respond to malaria and raises fresh questions in the quest to understand and defeat the deadly disease. Malaria, […]

Malaria test as simple as a bandage

Written by | 13 Dec 2020

Testing for malaria could become as simple as putting on a bandage. That’s the idea behind a platform developed by Rice University engineers who introduced a microneedle patch […]

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