Sentences with phrase «against malaria»

This means that in the global fight against malaria, we need to do everything we can to slow the rise of drug - resistant forms of the disease.

She and her colleagues examined the extracts of plants protective in treating fever, and then determined the active ingredient that protected against the malaria parasite.

However, it is only now that they have been shown to be involved in protection against malaria.

The search for a vaccine against malaria remains high on the global research agenda for many years.

The origins of our best drug against malaria have long been a mystery.

The newest weapon against malaria comes from the most unlikely of places — the guts of a mosquito.

In the war against malaria, one small corner of the globe has repeatedly turned the tide, rendering our best weapons moot and medicine on the brink of defeat.

The quantity of drug transferred in breast milk is not enough to provide protection against malaria for the infant.

But several studies have suggested that mosquitoes engineered to build defenses against malaria are less fit than insects that chose to live with the parasites.

In order to move forward they made pioneering technological breakthroughs as well, all of which have resulted in the most promising vaccine candidate against malaria to date.

It is important to follow the advice you are given to ensure you are protected against malaria during and after your travels.

Let's remember that with the right investments and collaborative approaches, we can get closer to our goal of winning the fight against malaria.

Previous research had hinted that genetic changes to a particular stretch of DNA on chromosome 4 offered some protection against malaria.

It will be tricky to tackle this issue while also ensuring people are protected against malaria.

The finding may help develop new weapons against malaria.

Only one vaccine has been licensed, and neither it nor any others in development today will be 100 percent effective against malaria infection, said lead researcher José A. Stoute, associate professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology.

Artemisinin was originally isolated as an extract from a traditional Chinese herbal remedy, and while it is still highly effective against malaria in patients, the mechanism of action has been unclear.

In addition, relevant U.S. government agencies should continue efforts against malaria through the President's Malaria Initiative and collaborative work with partners toward elimination of the disease, the report says.

VIP technology bypasses the requirement of the host to make its own immune response against malaria, which is what occurs with a vaccine.

Some potential discouraging news in the worldwide battle against malaria: A report from Senegal shows that mosquitos can rapidly develop resistance to insecticide used to impregnate bed nets.

Pyrethroids have played an outsize role in the global fight against malaria in the last decades.

Efficacy against malaria infection of PfSPZ Vaccine administered to infants 5 - 12 months of age in 3 doses by passive and active surveillance for naturally acquired Pf infection, measured by blood smear microscopy, during 6 months following the last vaccine dose.

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Esvelt believes that immunizing mosquitoes against the malaria parasite, a positive application of CRISPR - Cas9, is a better place to start than eradicating a species with a lethal gene drive.

«We've been trying to treat it with the drugs used against malaria, but it would be better to use those drugs that are used on fungi.

Gene drives could strike a powerful blow against malaria by altering mosquito populations so that they can no longer spread the disease, which kills 650,000 people every year.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries of a medication against roundworm parasites and to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.

In 2012, James's team developed a mosquito that, thanks to a genetic tweak, produced antibodies against the malaria microbe, destroying it before it could be transmitted to the mosquito's next blood meal.

«With artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites becoming an emerging concern, particularly in Southeast Asia, our study could potentially contribute to the design of better drugs and treatment strategies against malaria,» said Assoc Prof Tan.

«Largest genetic study of mosquitoes reveals spread of insecticide resistance across Africa: New intelligence to help towards campaign against malaria in Africa.»

There is an experiment with a vegetal, preventive medicine against malaria.

Apparently, antibodies to this protein protected against malaria by trapping the schizont inside the red blood cell — not by preventing it from infecting new ones.

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

This release comes at a time when the latest wave of antimalarial drug resistance, including the frontline drug, artemisinin, is threatening gains made against malaria.

Take precautions against malaria, yellow fever, meningitis and insect bites (namely tsetse, tumbu and blackflies, ticks and sandfleas).

In 2012, James and colleagues reported that they had engineered Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes with genes that produce antibodies against malaria parasites.

Meanwhile, Keasling's fight against malaria continues unabated.

All women received 5.7 mg iron / day through flour fortification during intervention and usual intermittent preventive treatment against malaria.

Some will be raising awareness by showing a clip of the film When the Night Comes, produced by Bobby Bailey (Invisible Children) with United Against Malaria (see a clip of the documentary here).

One of the goals of the World Health Organization's 2016 - 2030 programme against malaria is to wipe out the disease in at least 10 countries by the end of this decade.

To evaluate the efficacy of indoor residual spraying against malaria, scientists place a piece of tape on the wall, pull it off, and then soak it in a chemical solution to see how much pyrethroid insecticide was applied.

She found that the weakened sporozoites triggered immunity against malaria instead of the disease, paving the way for a potential vaccine.

In recognition of its importance against malaria, the discovery of artemisinin won Chinese scientist Ms Tu Youyou the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine earlier in October this year.

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered the mystery behind the potent parasite - killing effect of artemisinin, a drug that is considered to be the last line of defence against malaria.

A study by researchers from the National University of Singapore has uncovered the mystery behind the potent parasite - killing effect of artemisinin, a drug that is considered to be the last line of defense against malaria.

Other hereditary diseases of the red blood cells that protect against malaria include the thalassemias (disorders of hemoglobin's alpha and beta protein chains) and glucose -6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, an enzyme defect that leads to red blood cell breakage during illness or following exposure to certain drugs.