Fascinatingly, Plasmodium have a sneaky strategy for avoiding capture up their sleeves. They cloak themselves in red blood cells, creating flower-shaped shields to invade the body in stealth mode, ...

The plasmodium of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large amoeba-like cell consisting of a dendritic network of tube-like structures (pseudopodia). It changes its shape as it crawls over ...

SCD causes changes in the hemoglobin molecule that can affect the shape and function of RBCs. ... Uyoga S, et al. (2022). Sickle cell anaemia and severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria: ...

About Plasmodium Ovale. Plasmodium Ovale is termed as ovale because about 20% of the parasitised cells are oval in shape. As per the scientists, P. ovale rarely causes severe illness.

Several new malaria drugs under development share a common feature: they promote an influx of sodium ions into Plasmodium parasites that have invaded red blood cells and multiply there. A study ...

"Plasmodium infection and distribution patterns are principally shaped by geography, whereas Haemoproteus patterns of diversity and distribution are primarily shaped by their host evolutionary ...

Embargoed for release: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 2:00 PM ET. Key points: Comprehensive genetic mapping of Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic parasite that causes malaria, has revealed the genes ...

Challenges to Understanding Calcium Homeostasis in Plasmodium falciparum. Plasmodium falciparum function in a range of environments from the high extracellular Ca2+ concentrations within blood ...