Scientists are raising the alarm about a drug-resistant strain of malaria that's becoming a growing threat in southeast Asia and could spread to other countries where the parasitic infection is common ...

Emerging artemisinin-resistant malaria could bring years of clinical progress to a halt, investigators caution. Artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites are prevalent throughout mainland ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mosquito is one of the world’s most impactful forces. The breadth of transmissible diseases caused by a ...

Evolving resistance in Southeast Asia is battering current frontline malaria drugs. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have been giving way, leading to rising treatment failures. Simultaneously, ...

Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou announced Monday that her team has proposed solutions to the problem of artemisinin resistance, providing new evidence that artemisinin is still "the best weapon" against ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have developed a method to synthesize the highly potent antimalarial drug artemisinin, which could lead to a more ...

The most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, according to new evidence. This ...

Sanofi was recently awarded one of the US Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) prestigious “Patents for Humanity” awards. Please can you explain why Sanofi was ...

Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his University of California, Berkeley, laboratory, professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true. On April 11, the ...

Chinese 2015 Nobel Prize winner in medicine Tu Youyou speaks during an interview in her apartment in Beijing. Photo: AP A breakthrough has been made in the global fight against malaria by a team of ...

Artemisinin-based combination therapies have recently been introduced in virtually all countries in which malaria is endemic, thereby making such drugs the most essential class of antimalarial agents.

As the world desperately searches for weapons to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of people are turning to an herbal remedy: Artemisia annua. The sweet wormwood plant supplies a key ...