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Malaria Nexus is Elsevier’s Global Malaria Resource: A major hub for scientists working in all aspects of malaria research. The website aims to provide free access to some of the latest research on malaria published in Elsevier’s many journals. Articles are regularly uploaded on the site and made freely available to registered members for a period of 3 months. News items and podcast interviews with key leaders in the field are also frequently posted and available for free to registrants. A host of new areas will soon be introduced, so keep an eye on the new developments of the website!

Latest News

Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes are particularly attracted to human odor Posted on 17 May 2013

Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes are particularly attracted to human odor

A study recently published in the journal PLOS ONE shows that Plasmodium alters the behavior of anopheline mosquitoes and renders them increasingly attracted to human smell.

Other News

Posted on 14 May 2013

HRP2 levels predict likelihood of cerebral malaria in African children

A study recently published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases shows that plasma concentrations of the Plasmodium protein HRP2 can predict the odds of developing cerebral malaria in Malawian children.

Posted on 13 May 2013

Postdoctoral vacancy in molecular and cellular biology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A postdoctoral position is available at the NIH to study the molecular and cellular biology of malaria parasites in the lab of Dr Sanjay Desai.

Posted on 13 May 2013

PhD studentship available at the University of Edinburgh

The project titled "Understanding host defense and parasite offense: the coevolution of circadian rhythms" will be jointly supervised by Dr Sarah Reece and Dr Nick Savill.

Posted on 10 May 2013

Stable inherited transmission of the bacterium Wolbachia in an anopheline vector population

An article recently published in the journal Science describes for the first time the stable inherited transmission of Wolbachia in anopheline mosquitoes.

Feature Articles

Posted on 23 May 2013

Cell-Cell Communication between Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells via Exosome-like Vesicles

Cell, Volume 153, Issue 5, 23 May 2013, Pages 1120-1133
Neta Regev-Rudzki, Danny W. Wilson, Teresa G. Carvalho, Xavier Sisquella, Bradley M. Coleman, Melanie Rug, Dejan Bursac, Fiona Angrisano, Michelle Gee, Andrew F. Hill, Jake Baum, Alan F. Cowman

Posted on 23 May 2013

Malaria-Infected Erythrocyte-Derived Microvesicles Mediate Cellular Communication within the Parasite Population and with the Host Immune System

Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 13, Issue 5, 15 May 2013, Pages 521-534
Pierre-Yves Mantel, Anh N. Hoang, Ilana Goldowitz, Daria Potashnikova, Bashar Hamza, Ivan Vorobjev, Ionita Ghiran, Mehmet Toner, Daniel Irimia, Alexander R. Ivanov, Natasha Barteneva, Matthias Marti

Posted on 23 May 2013

Talking to Each Other to Initiate Sexual Differentiation

Cell, Volume 153, Issue 5, 23 May 2013, Pages 945-947
Hernando A. del Portillo, Chetan E. Chitnis

Posted on 23 May 2013

Characterization of a novel merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium vivax, Pv41

Acta Tropica, Volume 126, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 222-228
Yang Cheng, Feng Lu, Takafumi Tsuboi, Eun-Taek Han

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