Uncategorized - September 7, 2017
Spying on malaria parasites
By combining two microscope techniques, a team of scientists led by Sergey Kapishnikov from the Niels Bohr Institute has managed to obtain new information about the mode of operation applied by malaria parasites when attacking their victims. “In the lab we infected human red blood cells with malaria parasites. We then ultimately placed the infected […]
Uncategorized - November 10, 2014
Helping Babies, Preventing Malaria
The Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) is helping more newborn children survive and reducing the number of deaths from malaria in low- and lower-middle income countries. Through one programme, midwives working in the delivery rooms of Haydom Lutheran Hospital in a remote area of Tanzania are instructed in […]