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

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

When I joined Guinea’s National Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) Control Programme in its Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in 2013, all I knew about sleeping sickness was what I’d read ...

Dr Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) devised the world-famous Apgar Score which is a quick way for doctors and midwives to evaluate the health of all newborn babies. The test is done to determine whether a ...

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.

A new study by LMU and Helmholtz Munich shows how the pathogen Trypanosoma brucei controls changes in its cell surface to evade the immune ...

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 ...

St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos —renowned for pioneering kidney transplantation in Nigeria—has held an awareness to educate the public on kidney diseases, their causes, and prevention strategies. This is ...