Cerebral malaria is one of a number of clinical syndromes associated with infection by human malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The etiology of cerebral malaria derives from sequestration ...

Two studies show that Plasmodium—the genus of protozoans that cause malaria—have an internal sense of time that synchronizes with their host’s circadian rhythms and allows the parasites to ...

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

A paper describing the research is published in the journal Nature. Malaria is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, ...

But recent research has also shown that blood-sucking insects — including mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles, which spread the Plasmodium parasites behind malaria — need HPPD to digest their ...