Sentences with phrase «protected against the malaria»

Britain has purchased 20 million bed nets to protect against Malaria in Africa, Gordon Brown has said.

Of the Iron Age individuals, three carry at least one Duffy null allele, protecting against malaria, and two have at least one sleeping - sickness - resistance variant in the APOL1 gene.

By contrast, women who carry a sickle - cell allele, which protects against malaria, have only about 50 percent more surviving children in malaria - infested regions than women lacking the variant.

The classic example is the sickle cell gene — people with one copy of the gene are strongly protected against malaria but those with two copies of the gene develop a life - threatening condition known as sickle - cell disease.

Did genes for abnormal hemoglobin survive and spread, he wondered, because they protected against malaria infection?

Be careful the next time you try to protect yourself against malaria.

The A and B blood groups (chromosome 9) protect against cholera; the cystic fibrosis and Tay - Sachs (15) mutations may protect against tuberculosis; the sickle - cell (11) and thalassemia (16) mutations protect against malaria.

«Of course, we don't know what the human dosage would be, but it's conceivable that the right dosage could completely protect against malaria.»

Discovering any genetic changes that protect against malaria is of great interest, says hematologist and malaria specialist Dave Roberts of the University of Oxford, who was not involved with the study.

Yet in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions where it is endemic, «people have already developed 25 new genes that protect against malaria, including the Duffy blood type, an entirely new blood group,» he notes.

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.

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

The genetic variations that protect against malaria may have a long history.

Kwiatkowski and his team suspect that the variation might be subject to something called balancing selection — just like the sickle cell variation — where genes are selected because of their ability to protect against malaria, but are kept from becoming too common because of their potential downsides.

It has been known for several decades that exposure to mosquitoes treated with radiation can protect against malaria.

With a different scenario, Mosquito Hood, designed by Momentum Core, educates Africans living in rural areas about the risks and ways to protect themselves against malaria.

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

Myth: I'm taking homeopathic medicines to protect against malaria so I don't need to do anything else to protect myself Fact: There is no evidence that homeopathic or herbal medication will protect you from malaria.

It is better to protect yourself against malaria than risk contracting a potentially fatal disease.

It is strongly recommended that you seek expert pre-travel health advice six to eight weeks before you travel to ensure that you are protecting yourself against malaria and other infectious diseases.

Happily, given its significance in developing countries, the paper, «Antibodies to PfSEA - 1 block parasite egress from RBCs and protect against malaria infection,» is not behind the Science subscription wall.

Not exact matches

Researchers have known for decades that the glycophorin cluster of genes is highly variable, but it was not possible to show that this genetic variation was responsible for protecting people against severe malaria.

A new paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine describes the discovery and biological profiling of an exciting new anti-malarial clinical drug candidate, MMV390048, effective against resistant strains of the malaria parasite, and across the entire parasite lifecycle, with the potential to cure and protect in a single dose.

In 1954 molecular biologist Anthony C. Alison had surmised that alterations in the hemoglobin molecule protected against death from malaria.

«Vaccine alternative protects mice against malaria.»

But as researchers turn to diseases that are more difficult to protect against, such as malaria or HIV, they are setting their sights lower, aiming for vaccines that prevent severe disease but not infection.

BREASTFEEDING protects babies against malaria, says Olakunle Kassim of Howard University College of Medicine in Washington DC.

Scientists at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have developed a protein which completely cures mice of malaria and protects them against re-infection.

The next critical questions will be whether the vaccine is durable over a long period of time and can the vaccine protect against other strains of malaria.»

An experimental vaccine poised to win World Health Organization approval as the first to even partially protect children against malaria works better against one strain of the disease - causing parasite than others.

In a huge boost to the global fight against malaria, researchers have discovered how the malaria parasite protects itself by building resistance against the last - line in antimalarial medications, and how a new medical treatment can overcome the parasite's defences.

Protecting the young against malaria is a challenge but nevertheless crucial, since a baby getting cerebral malaria is likely to become ill very quickly and could die almost before it is obvious that they are unwell.