Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular insights into placental malaria. “This is a really lovely piece of science,” ...

Their red blood cells, containing some abnormal hemoglobin, tend to sickle when they are infected by the malaria parasite. Those infected cells flow through the spleen, which culls them out ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system. The study, published today as a ...

During a malaria infection, countless Plasmodium parasites simultaneously destroy the red blood cells they’ve inhabited. This destruction causes a wave of fever and chills in the infected person that ...

When it comes to evading the human immune system, the malaria parasite ... they burst out and infect red blood cells. At this point they’re vulnerable because infected red blood cells are ...

And while malaria deaths declined each year between 2000 and 2019, the disease is far from being eliminated worldwide. In some areas, infection ... sidles up to a red blood cell, it then secretes ...