The first vaccines to reach Sudan’s South Kordofan state in nearly three years were delivered this week, according to Save the Children.

Author summary The cell of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has a unique organelle called the apicoplast that produces essential metabolites, but it is unclear how it maintains a stabl...

Blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites rely on a non-photosynthetic plastid, the apicoplast, for survival, making it an attractive target for antimalarial intervention. Like the mitochondrion, th...

The apicoplast organelle of Plasmodium falciparum is essential for parasite replication, however the details of its biogenesis, inheritance and regulation throughout the cell cycle are unknown. Here, ...

The MPM XXXVI website is now online

From the blog of Kobi Russell at The Times of Israel

Malaria and hypertension are seemingly unrelated communicable and non-communicable diseases, both highly pervasive in the global south. There is a deb…

The apicoplast of Plasmodium parasites serves as a metabolic hub that synthesize essential biomolecules. Like other endosymbiotic organelles, 90% of the apicoplast proteome is encoded by the cell nucl...