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Q&A: Unlocking the malaria parasite’s genetic code

The genetic diversity of the malaria parasite could hold the key to malaria treatment and research in Africa.

9 Apr 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Malaria merozoites invading human red blood cells. Credit: NIADH

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A child and its mother being tested for malaria in Mozambique. Scientists are researching the safety and efficacy of mRNA-based malaria vaccines. Copyright: Courtesy of Malaria Consortium.

Hunting the ‘perfect protein’ for malaria mRNA vaccine

25 Apr 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Dr. Adenov, Kazakhstan's director of the National TB Program, with a patient. Researchers are pushing to capitalise on the success of mRNA technology against COVID-19 and are aiming to develop an mRNA vaccine to be used against TB. Copyright: USAID Central Asia, (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Can mRNA vaccine tech take on tuberculosis?

14 Apr 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Tuberculosis Vaccine development

Researchers hypothesise that the black fungus epidemic in India was caused by burning cow dung. Copyright: Image by Randhir Kumar from Pixabay.

Cow dung fires linked to black fungus epidemic in India

6 Apr 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

A scientist working in the design and development lab of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in 2011. Clinical trials for an mRNA vaccine against HIV have started Copyright: AIDSVaccine, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Cautious optimism for trials of mRNA-based HIV vaccine

31 Mar 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts HIV Vaccine development

A new study reports that a four-month-long childhood tuberculosis treatment works just as well as a six-month course. Copyright: J P Davidson (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

Childhood TB course can be cut to four months

24 Mar 2022

4 min read

Tuberculosis

Women working in the advanced animal health laboratories of ILRI, in Nairobi, Kenya. Copyright: ILRI/David White, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Q&A: Science ‘needs to listen to African voices’

24 Feb 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

COVID healthcare costs ‘catastrophic’ for poorest

7 Jan 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 Cross-posts

COVID-19 boosted excess sale of antibiotics in India

2 Sep 2021

4 min read

COVID-19 Explainer Cross-posts

Handwashing ‘impossible’ for one in three amid COVID-19

8 Jul 2021

4 min read

COVID-19 Cross-posts Explainer

Africa ‘tech hub’ aims to fill COVID-19 vaccine gap

6 Jul 2021

4 min read

COVID-19 Cross-posts Innovation

Why sharing bioimaging tech is crucial to global health

1 Jul 2021

6 min read

Innovation Cross-posts Explainer

Guinea declares Ebola epidemic over

29 Jun 2021

4 min read

Ebola Cross-posts Country stories

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