Malaria parasites move on helical trajectories when infecting their hosts. Now it is shown that they use right-handed chirality to control their motion patterns, and that this chirality is linked to t...

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A unique Arp2/3 complex in malaria parasites enables DNA segregation during the rapid formation of male gametes by safeguarding the attachment of chromosomes to the mitotic spindle.

A key question in biology is how living cells adapt to highly complex functional requirements in the context of an organism, within which they need to develop complex morphologies, interact with many…

This Perspective highlights bottom-up molecular engineering and modular nanobiotechnological approaches for developing effective immunotherapeutics and their potential in personalized medicine.

Plasmodium liver infection is limited by type I interferons (IFN-I) but the mechanisms remain unknown. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Marques-da-Silva et al. reveal two IFN-I-induced pathways t...

imageimageThis study directly visualises actin cytoskeleton in Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites under native conditions and investigates its structural transitions during locomotion. P. falciparum a...

Author summary Malaria parasites are transmitted by and to mosquitoes. Blocking either of these transmission steps would stop the parasite life cycle. Hence, identification of new proteins that are es...