Scientists from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have uncovered a crucial structural feature of a key malaria drug target, known as PfATP4, and ...

Poor-quality and fake antimalarial drugs are leading to drug resistance and inadequate treatment that is endangering global efforts made to control and eliminate malaria over the past 10 years, ...

The antimalarial drug mefloquine could help treat genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, as well as some cancers. In these diseases, a mutation in the genetic code ...

This cartoon shows the newly identified mefloquine binding site causing the changes in the ribosome's dynamics which promote read-through of the premature stop codons. The main interactions are shown ...

Most people with lupus take an antimalarial drug to control their symptoms. These drugs may also prevent blood clots and damage to your organs from lupus. Antimalarials are mostly safe to use and ...

Structural insights into a potent antimalarial drug candidate's interaction with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have paved the way for drug-resistant malaria therapies, according to a new ...

Researchers led by teams at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), the University of California, Irvine, and the Yale School of Medicine have developed a compound that they found to be ...

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