In a pathbreaking discovery, scientists from New Delhi’s International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and other institutions have isolated a compound that is able to completely clear malaria parasites with just a single, low-dose treatment. The compound acts on all three life stages of the malaria parasite, has prophylactic property … Continue reading A novel compound prevents, cures malaria
Anopheles gambiae
Artemisinin resistance dents the anti-malaria armour
The emergence of resistance to the artemisinin drug, a potent anti-malarial medicine, now threatens to affect the big gains achieved in recent years in reducing the global burden of malaria — an estimated 1.2 billion fewer malaria cases and 6.2 million fewer malaria deaths globally between 2001 and 2015. This resistance, to artemisinin, becomes all … Continue reading Artemisinin resistance dents the anti-malaria armour
Spread of drug-resistant malaria parasites looms large
Anopheles mosquitoes that take multiple blood meals from different people who are infected with malaria or take multiple parasite strains from a person during a single blood meal can have grave consequences — they can end up accumulating more malaria infections. Also, mosquitoes that have already been infected with one malaria parasite strain become more … Continue reading Spread of drug-resistant malaria parasites looms large
Editorial: Unravelling the genetic make-up
Published in the Hindu on June 4, 2007 The battle to eradicate Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that causes yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya, has got a shot in the arm with the successful sequencing of the mosquito’s genome. A. aegypti mosquito figures in about 50 million cases of dengue fever in tropical countries and about … Continue reading Editorial: Unravelling the genetic make-up
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