Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

A new study by LMU and Helmholtz Munich shows how pathogens control changes in their cell surface to evade the immune system.

In July 2023, PaxMedica released topline data from PAX-HAT-301 Retrospective Analysis of Suramin Treatment for Stage 1 Trypanosoma Brucei Rhodesiense Human African Trypanosomiasis (S1 TBR HAT).

Antigenic variation is a key mechanism by which pathogens evade the immune system. New research has shown how trypanosomes change their antigen expression.

Sleeping sickness, medically known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is a parasite spread through the bite of tsetse flies, who thrived in the swampy mangrove of Guinea’s coast. The historic ...

SLEEPING SICKNESS, or African lethargy, is a disease the history of which we can trace back no further than 100 years. The first description that we know of is that of Winterbottom, who ...

According to WHO, Kenya has eliminated sleeping sickness as a public health problem. The agency targets 2030 when most African countries would have eliminated the disease with zero transmission.

A research team has applied leading-edge atomic imaging and AI-driven modeling to create the most detailed 3D map yet of the ...