Malaria symptoms occur once the parasite's asexual stages begin replicating inside red blood cells. However, these asexual forms must transform into male and female stages called gametocytes in order ...

Malaria remains one of the biggest global public health challenges. It kills a young child every two minutes, more than any other infectious disease. Malaria parasites, of which Plasmodium falciparum ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body’s immune system, sometimes for years. It turns ...