Ancient Chinese folk remedy may hold key to non-toxic cancer treatment
...osquito-borne disease. The compound helps control malaria because it reacts with the high iron concentrations found in the malaria parasite. When artemisinin comes into contact with iron, a chemical reaction ensues, spawning charg...Assaulting the mosquitos sense of smell
...osquito that feeds primarily on humans and spreads malaria that are extremely similar to genes generally con...e there is considerable commercial interest. While malaria has been largely eliminated in industrialized countries like the United States, there is still consi...Low-tech handheld device detects counterfeit drugs
...gs. They report their results on a method to test malaria drugs today at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Amer... Medicine and Hygiene in Atlanta. "Counterfeit malaria drugs are a widespread problem in many parts of the world, especially in southeast Asia ," says Mich...Compounds in garlic fight malaria and cancer
...f these compounds in garlic may be helpful against malaria and have proven it in animal models. Crandall ... were effective against Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite, those that were were also effective at killing the cancer cells. "We looked at the act...Antibodies to liver stage associated with malaria resistance
...evels of antibodies against the liver stage of the malaria parasite appear to predict resistance to the disea...giene, could eventually lead to new strategies for malaria vaccines or treatments. "Malaria occurs in stages in the human body," says Jonathan Kurtis, Assi...UCSF study finds two old drugs may help fight prion diseases
... that two drugs currently approved to treat either malaria or certain psychotic illnesses are effective in tr...hers determined that quinacrine, approved to treat malaria and giardiasis, and chlorpromazine, approved to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions, ...NIAID awards grant to rapidly sequence the malaria mosquito genome
...les gambiae, a mosquito species that transmits the malaria parasite to people. As part of an international c...ent of the world's population lives in areas where malaria naturally occurs. Malaria parasites undergo a complex life cycle; to thrive and spread they must s...Scientists find drastic underestimations of malaria morbidity, mortality, and economic burden
...ve presented new information about the severity of malaria morbidity, mortality, and its economic toll in a s...ddress the pervasive and intractable problems that malaria represents, it is essential that malaria's full burden on societies and families be measured both ep...Banning animals from the bedroom could reduce Chagas Disease risk, say Science researchers
...evaluate how the spread of other diseases, such as malaria or leishmaniasis, may be affected by close contact with domesticated animals....An epidemic may have gone unnoticed--DDT use in US linked to premature births in the 1960's
... andhighly effective in areas where mosquito-borne malaria is a major publichealth problem. Previous studies...ith epidemiologists in Mexico to see if women from malaria areas, highly exposed to DDT, are affected like the U.S.women were....AIDS in Africa has potential to affect human evolution, UC Berkeley scientists report
...se of AIDS in Africa is as strong as the selection malaria had on the gene that causes sickle cell anemia," s...mic disease with as strong a selective pressure as malaria and AIDS. Some scientists have suggested that bubonic plague, which decimated Europe during the 14th...Malaria research and training benefits global community
...demic regions. Ninety percent of those who die of malaria are African children under the age of 5. Over 1.5...strategies are developed, death and illness due to malaria will increase, and the disease will continue to be a substantial barrier to the economic and social ...Spurred by the worldwide fight against malaria, scientists release parasite genome database
... the parasite responsible for the vast majority of malaria deaths worldwide. Developed as a collaboration be... database is, in some respects, more important for malaria researchers than the sequencing of the human genome has been for researchers who study human disease...Swarthmore chemist wins national award for research with students
...equires aggregation, for example; while underlying malaria and Alzheimer's disease are harmful clumps of proteins. Pasternack himself was influenced by his graduate advisor. "Bob Plane helped me discover my own values - to communicate through teaching, but that research is a natural creative extension of ...Debate over genetically modified food gets an educational home on the web
... the world's declining amphibian population and on malaria and the use of DDT to contain it. The National Science Foundation is a major funder of the effort. One of the architects of the SCOPE site is Philip Bell, assistant professor in the University of Washingtons College of Education. He sees the SCOPE si...Scientists discover new stage in malarial infection
...ntified a previously unknown step that enables the malaria parasite to spread in the bloodstream. And they ha...e effect of a protease inhibitor called E64 on the malaria parasite. E64 did not stop the parasites from escaping out of red blood cells. But it prevented the...UF researcher: antioxidants play a role in deadly malnutrition disease
...o three groups: those with kwashiorkor, those with malaria and those classified as healthy children. Manary stored the samples on dry ice at -70 degrees Celsius, and returned them to the United States, where Leeuwenburgh analyzed them using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, a sensitive and specific proc...... three infectious killers - AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria - all are caused by pathogens that ensconce themselves snugly inside cells and live to wreak havoc. Yet, these intracellular pathogens have been hard to study, Portnoy said. "There are no effective vaccines for any of these diseases, in part because ......ses endemic to a group or geographic area, such as malaria and the varying subtypes of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appearing in different parts of the world....