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Scientists increase imaging efficiency in cell structure studies

Biology / Other

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Laboratory of Bioengineering and Physical Science have developed a new technique that allows researchers to visualize fine details of cell ...


Unique immunization method provides insights about protective anti-malaria immune response

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In this week's New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in Singapore, The Netherlands and France report that they have developed a novel immunization method that will induce fast and effective protection in humans agains ...


Drug-resistant malaria has emerged in Cambodia

Drug-resistant malaria has emerged in Cambodia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Malaria parasites in western Cambodia have become resistant to artemisinin-based therapies, the first-line treatment for malaria, according to a study published in the New England Journal of ...


New hope for advances in treating malaria

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed chemicals which kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum - including those resistant to existing drugs.


Deadly parasite's rare sexual dalliances may help scientists neutralize it

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

For years, microbiologist Stephen Beverley, Ph.D., has tried to get the disease-causing parasite Leishmania in the mood for love. In this week's Science, he and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report that t ...