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• • Initiative targets malaria eradication - Premium content

    Focus shifts to blocking parasite transmission.

    3 November 2009

  • Malaria becoming more drug resistant - Premium content

    Artemisinin-based medicines fail a growing number of patients in Cambodia.

    29 July 2009

  • African disease labs to get health check - Premium content

    Rating system for labs could improve diagnosis and lift standards.

    27 July 2009

  • Malaria drug-makers ignore WHO ban - Premium content

    Health agency calls for clampdown on artemisinin monotherapy.

    14 July 2009

  • IN BRIEF: Malaria vaccine enters phase III clinical trials - Premium content

    3 June 2009

  • Microscopic marvels: Microscope for the masses - Premium content

    3 June 2009

  • Malaria vaccine enters phase III clinical trials - Premium content

    Success in large-scale studies could see drug to market by 2012

    27 May 2009

  • Q&A: Research for development - Premium content

    The UK Department for International Development's research chief discusses priorities.

    28 April 2009

  • Disease in a warming climate - Premium content

    Fears of a global rise in infectious conditions may be unfounded.

    9 April 2009

  • One drug, two targets - Premium content

    Antimalarial compound fights disease and fends off drug-resistant parasites in mice.

    8 April 2009

  • Q&A: The malaria map-makers - Premium content

    Images offer hope that the disease could be brought under control in most areas.

    24 March 2009

  • IN BRIEF: GSK backs patent pool for neglected diseases - Premium content

    18 February 2009

  • Malaria vaccine gets shot in the arm from tests - Premium content

    Promising results pave the way for a vaccine candidate to undergo full-blown trials across Africa.

    8 December 2008

  • Gabon centre refocuses on emerging diseases - Premium content

    Incoming director-general aims to reinvigorate medial institution.

    29 October 2008

  • Briefing: Millenium development goals under scrutiny - Premium content

    At the halfway point of the global project to eradicate poverty, Nature asks how much has been achieved and how science can help.

    25 September 2008

  • African mutation may increase HIV infection - Premium content

    Genetic quirk fends off malaria, but may render Africans more vulnerable to HIV.

    16 July 2008

  • Human evolution: Details of being human - Premium content

    A difference in one molecule led physician Ajit Varki to question what sets humans apart from other apes. Bruce Lieberman meets a man who sees a big picture in the finer points.

    2 July 2008

  • Social networking site aims to help fight malaria - Premium content

    New website gives smaller African projects a bigger profile.

    22 April 2008

  • How sperm and egg fuse into one - Premium content

    Fusion protein could be targeted to stop parasites from reproducing.

    25 March 2008

  • Malaria: The end of the beginning - Premium content

    After decades of work, a pioneering malaria vaccine may soon reach the final phase of clinical trials. In the first of two features on efforts against malaria, Brendan Maher reports on a vaccine that is far from perfect - but which may provide new direction and save thousands of lives.

    27 February 2008

  • Malaria: The big push - Premium content

    Zambia, with help from partners around the world, is stepping up its battle against malaria. Michael Hopkin reports from the rural front line.

    27 February 2008

  • Malaria fact file - Premium content

    Malaria continues to be a global problem, but is the end in sight?

    27 February 2008

  • Malaria map brings good news - Premium content

    Disease transmission is low throughout large areas of malarial risk.

    26 February 2008

  • Researchers hunt down fake drug - Premium content

    Unprecedented pursuit of drug counterfeiters nabs distributors of fake malaria drugs.

    11 February 2008

  • Why do chimps eat dirt? - Premium content

    Apes might eat soil to activate anti-malarial plants.

    10 January 2008

  • Can weedkillers whack human parasites? - Premium content

    A paper in Nature shows that herbicides can attack the parasite that causes the tropical disease toxoplasmosis. Kerri Smith explores the history of wielding weedkiller against human disease.

    9 January 2008

  • Native genes may save Hawaiian birds - Premium content

    Resistance to avian malaria may lurk in endangered birds? genomes.

    16 November 2007

  • Malaria vaccine hope for Africa's babies - Premium content

    Mozambique trial shows vaccine safe for young infants.

    17 October 2007

  • Malaria research should go 'back to basics' - Premium content

    Too many ineffectual vaccines threaten vital work.

    19 September 2007

  • Malaria vaccine strategies get boost - Premium content

    Money and research results both on the up.

    18 December 2006

  • Malaria and weather come under same umbrella - Premium content

    Weather forecasting models could provide early warnings of malaria epidemics.

    1 February 2006

  • Malaria vaccine shows promise - Premium content

    Children in trial are protected for at least 18 months.

    15 November 2005

  • Gates pledges further funds to tackle malaria - Premium content

    But research is still under-supported, says a new survey.

    30 October 2005

  • Zambia vows to cut malaria deaths - Premium content

    Bill Gates backs national campaign, aiming for 'blockbuster success'.

    20 May 2005

  • Malaria map paints stark picture - Premium content

    Study suggests the disease may afflict twice as many people as thought.

    8 March 2005

  • Malaria vaccine shows promise - Premium content

    Largest childhood trial of jab raises prospect of routine inoculation.

    15 October 2004

  • Vaccines may increase virulence - Premium content

    Pursue additional defences, urge malaria experts.

    22 June 2004

  • Malaria battle needs new tactics - Premium content

    Experts urge joined-up solution for Africa's health woes.

    7 May 2004

  • Mosquitoes could fight malaria - Premium content

    Researchers identify gene that makes insects attack parasite.

    26 March 2004

  • West Nile Virus may have felled Alexander the Great - Premium content

    Conservation and medicine collide in the jungle.

    28 November 2003

  • Frog egg reveals malaria drug mechanism - Premium content

    New target might spawn better drugs as resistance spreads.

    21 August 2003

  • Human drugs alter biting insects' resistance - Premium content

    Blood contents make some pesticides more effective, others less.

    4 August 2003

  • New head takes office at World Health Organization - Premium content

    Big diseases and less bureaucracy high on new leader's agenda.

    19 July 2003

  • Two thousand kids to get experimental malaria jab - Premium content

    Largest ever test of malaria vaccine to begin in Africa.

    9 July 2003

  • Malaria vaccine gets a boost - Premium content

    Vaccine double-act success in humans raises TB and HIV hopes.

    26 May 2003

  • Malaria mosquitoes' secret revealed - Premium content

    Mutation study uncovers key to insecticide resistance.

    9 May 2003

  • Malaria is killing one African child every 30 seconds - Premium content

    Experts meet around world to discuss report of "impending crisis"

    25 April 2003

  • Transgenic mosquitoes unfit for duty - Premium content

    Malaria-resistant insects must be bred for success

    21 February 2003

  • Hundreds of new malaria drug targets - Premium content

    Transport tags mark parasite for death.

    31 January 2003

  • Soap slays sleeping sickness - Premium content

    Bacterial hangover renders parasite susceptible to triclosan.

    18 December 2002

  • Newborns might help malaria kids - Premium content

    Blood from umbilical cords could treat anaemia caused by tropical disease.

    15 November 2002

  • Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum - Premium content

    Secrets in the mosquito and parasite genomes explored.

    3 October 2002

  • Genes means drugs and vaccines - Premium content

    Will following the gene map of the malaria parasite lead to new drugs and vaccines?

    3 October 2002

  • Portrait of a serial killer - Premium content

    A round up of the history and biology of the malaria parasite.

    3 October 2002

  • Pinning down Proteus - Premium content

    The protein CV of the malaria parasite should form the cornerstone of vaccine research.

    3 October 2002

  • Mosquitoes minus malaria - Premium content

    If wild populations of the mosquito that transmits malaria were replaced with insects rendered harmless by genetic engineering, the disease could finally be defeated. But that remains a big 'if', as Tom Clarke finds out.

    3 October 2002

  • Malaria as diverse as us? - Premium content

    Gene screen suggests one drug won't beat parasite.

    18 July 2002

  • Targeting Plasmodium ligands on mosquito salivary glands and midgut with a phage display peptide library - Premium content

    Malaria-proof mosquitoes raise hopes for disease eradication.

    23 May 2002

  • Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence - Premium content

    Vaccinations may increase death toll.

    13 December 2001

  • Blood gene saps malaria - Premium content

    A rare form of haemoglobin protects against malaria.

    15 November 2001

  • Synthesis, biological and immunological properties of cyclic peptides from Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein-1 - Premium content

    Ring raises hopes for a malaria vaccine.

    16 July 2001

  • Link between climate and malaria broken - Premium content

    Africa's malaria resurgence isn't down to global warming.

    21 February 2000

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