7 March 2024
Science & Technology
Plasmodium falciparum, a malaria parasite, uses gene conversion to produce genetic diversity in two surface protein genes targeted by the human immune system.
2024
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18 April 2023
Science & Technology
WormBase ParaSite release 18 adds largest number of new genomes and annotations since launch, as well as full integration with AlphaFold.
2023
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1 December 2022
Science & Technology
Recent studies supported by EMBL Grenoble’s expertise in structural biology research and scientific services have identified Altiratinib as a potential drug to stop toxoplasmosis infection and opened up treatment options against malaria.
2022
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31 October 2022
Plankton parasites provide a zombie story perfect for Halloween. While invading single-celled plankton, these parasites devour the cell’s nucleus and hijack metabolism while the organism remains alive.
7 June 2022
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Pascale Cossart, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the biology of Listeria, brings four decades of expertise in intracellular bacterial parasitism to EMBL as a visiting scientist.
2022
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25 May 2021
Science & Technology
The Bernabeu Group aims to increase our knowledge of cerebral malaria, using in vitro engineered networks of human blood vessels and brain cells.
2021
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21 May 2021
Science & Technology
EMBL scientists support research on malaria by providing freely available data resources and using innovative experimental approaches. Our Course and Conference Office facilitates the exchange of knowledge in the field by hosting the annual BioMalPar conference.
2021
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10 November 2020
Science & Technology
To help understand cerebral malaria the Bernabeu group has created in vitro engineered networks of human blood vessels.
2020
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13 October 2020
Science & Technology
A group of scientists led by EMBL Hamburg’s Christian Löw provide insights into the molecular structure of proteins involved in the gliding movements through which the parasites causing malaria and toxoplasmosis invade human cells.
2020
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22 November 2017
Science & Technology
Insights into the reproduction of Plasmodium parasites in mosquitoes reveal rapid and broad activity
2017
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6 March 2017
Science & Technology
Reconstructing T-cell development in high resolution
2017
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23 November 2016
Science & Technology
Parasite’s method of rewiring our immune response leads to novel tool for drug tests
2016
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3 March 2016
Science & Technology
First detailed atlas of start points for genes expression in malaria-causing parasite
2016
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1 December 2014
Genome-based insights into evolution of malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes.
28 November 2014
Largest collection of helminth genomic data ever assembled, in new open-access WormBase ParaSite.
1 October 2009
For many years, the mosquitoes that transmit malaria to humans were seen as public enemies, and campaigns to eradicate the disease focused on eliminating the mosquitoes. But, as a study published today in Science shows, the mosquitoes can also be our allies in the fight against this common foe,…
5 April 2006
Today the network of excellence for Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite (BioMalPar), will bring together the world’s elite in the field of Malaria research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. At the second annual BioMalPar conference, organised jointly…
21 December 2005
Researchers at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in India and a unit of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in France have made a key discovery about a molecule that helps the malaria parasite infect human cells. India is one of the countries…
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