Apicoplasts are organelles that were discovered in parasites like the one that causes malaria. How did scientists discover these organelles, and what do they do?

The circumsporozoite protein (CSP) has a key role in several stages of the Plasmodium life cycle, including the development of the sporozoite form of the parasite and its entry into the salivary ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite that causes malaria in humans, has been generated. The map contains the most ...

The malaria parasite, Plasmodium spp., exhibits unique adaptations ... the parasite undergoes complex life cycle stages involving both asexual and sexual reproduction. During its asexual phase ...

They infect his blood with Plasmodium and watch under a microscope ... to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete its life-cycle. Infested by Toxoplasma gondii. videoInfested by Toxoplasma ...