malaria
Qiagen Expands Blood Screening Collaboration in Brazil
The expanded partnership with Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz includes additional targets for blood screening as well as dengue virus surveillance.
Blood Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Provide Window Into Cerebral Malaria in Affected Children
Extracellular vesicles in the blood were shown to contain clues about gene expression shifts in the brains of children with retinopathy-positive or -negative cerebral malaria.
Project Africa GRADIENT aims to gather and analyze pharmacogenetic data specific to African populations with funding from Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline.
Malaria History, Colonization-Related Spread Revealed in Ancient DNA Sequencing Study
After flagging Plasmodium isolates in ancient DNA metagenomic datasets, researchers used capture-based sequencing to retrace international spread of malaria-causing parasites.
Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Omics, Dx Grants in April, May
Awardees include the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Detect-Ion, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.