Malaria: Blood cells behaving badly Date: June 10, 2014 Source: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Summary: New insight into how malaria parasites perturb flow, turning infected cells into sticky ...

How does Malaria affect the Red Blood Cell. The researchers at MIT, the Institute Pasteur and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have found a protein called RESA that causes ...

When the parasite responsible for malaria infects human red blood cells, it launches a 48-hour remodeling of the host cells. During the first 24 hours of this cycle, a protein called RESA ...

Malaria is a life-threatening disease affecting people globally. It is spread by mosquitoes carrying Plasmodium parasites ...

The red blood cell’s unique shape helps it get into difficult places to deliver oxygen. from shutterstock.com But red cells can also be homes to malaria parasites.

That is, unless they are infected with malaria parasites, in which case their motions are completely different. All the billions of flat, biconcave disks in our body known as red blood cells ...

Sickle cell anemia causes pain, fatigue and delayed growth, all because of a lack of enough healthy red blood cells. And yet genetic mutations that cause it — recessive genes for the oxygen ...

Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animals (after humans) and they transmit malaria, which kills about 400,000 people every year. Malaria is caused by a parasite with a complex life cycle.

Over time, some red blood cell disorders have evolved to help reduce the severity of malaria. One of these red blood cell disorders is sickle cell trait , in which a person produces both normal ...

Scientists seeking a vaccine against malaria, which kills a child every minute in Africa, have developed a promising new approach intended to imprison the disease-causing parasites inside the red ...

WASHINGTON D.C. June 10, 2014 -- All the billions of flat, biconcave disks in our body known as red blood cells (or erythrocytes) make three basic, tumbling-treadmill-type motions when they wend ...