An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for Structural Systems Biology and Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in ...

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

The cell cycle of Plasmodium spp. diverges markedly from that of model eukaryotes, featuring unusual modes such as schizogony and sporogony. During the asexual blood stage, multiple rounds of DNA ...