The urgent threat from Zika virus, which dominated headlines in early 2016, has passed. But research into how Zika and other mosquito-borne infections spread and cause […]
So much for survival of the fittest — diversity is the key: a team of researchers has succeeded in demonstrating experimentally that genetic diversity makes populations […]
A new study puts forth the most comprehensive tree of life for malaria parasites to date. Among the researchers’ findings is that the diverse malaria parasite […]
Before invading the bloodstream, the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite rapidly reproduces inside its host’s liver cells. Researchers show that liver-stage Plasmodium relies on a host protein called […]
