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Thread: Interesting News Stories about Malaria, and the Fight Against It!! |
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robertmiles
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Some news on an anti-malaria drug candidate:
Modified Bone Drug Kills Malaria Parasite in Mice http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120227204919.htm Unclear if finding it was related to this project, or to a similar effort elsewhere. |
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mgl_ALPerryman
FightAIDS@Home, GO Fight Against Malaria and OpenZika Scientist USA Joined: Aug 25, 2007 Post Count: 283 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hello l_mckeon,
Thank you very much for this information!!! I added PMT as the 4th target for the GO FAM project. See the description at: http://gofightagainstmalaria.scripps.edu/inde...r-potential-malaria-drugs On that page of the GO FAM site, I gave you props for informing us about this exciting new drug target. Best wishes, Alex L. Perryman, Ph.D. |
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New concerns rising over antimalaria drug
The antimalarial drug mefloquine is undergoing particular scrutiny by US military physicians after claims that its use can cause psychological problems, or even physical brain injuries. The publication Navy Times, which is a private publication owned by the US newspaper chain Gannett, is reporting on the case of one US Navy seaman who suffered multiple strange reactions after being ordered to begin taking mefloquine in preparation for deployment to a malaria-endemic region of the world. Full details: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/04/militar...cline-mefloquine-041112w/ |
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Scientists Find Achilles' Heel in Life-Threatening Malaria Parasites
The website Science Daily reports that researchers have identified a key protein that is common to many potentially fatal forms of malaria. They also found that antibodies that targeted this protein were effective against these severe malaria strains. Full story: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/...3A+Latest+Science+News%29 |
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robertmiles
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Iron Deficiency Protective Against Malaria
http://the-scientist.com/2012/04/13/iron-deficiency-protective-against-malaria/ |
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I haven't tried it yet, but this could be interesting: http://malariaspot.org/
It's a game where you analyze malaria images. |
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robertmiles
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I haven't tried it yet, but this could be interesting: http://malariaspot.org/ It's a game where you analyze malaria images. Doesn't work for me under Internet Explorer 8. Under Firefox, it gives me so little information on what to search for that I can achieve only negative scores from mistaken reports. |
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alver
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Did this project update ever get linked on the forum here? If so, I can't find it - worth a top-level thread I'd have thought?
---------------------------------------- (previously known as 'proxima' on SETI, UD, distributed folding, FaD, and Rosetta) |
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The website Dr. Perryman announced is part of the research information page: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/gfam/overview.do
Can't think of a [fairer] more top level link than that, but will ask the admin to edit in the proper link into the top GFAM forum stickied welcome post (second last paragraph) http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,32056. It was advised on in that thread. :D Thanks for pointing this out. --//-- |
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Biologists Produce Potential Malarial Vaccine from Algae
The website Science Daily reports "Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that could pave the way for the development of an inexpensive way to protect billions of people from one of the world's most prevalent and debilitating diseases." The full story at this link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516174437.htm |
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