African sleeping sickness is a serious infection caused by a parasitic microbe called Trypanosoma brucei. Using an imaging ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles' heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis.

Among these diseases is the infamous sleeping sickness, caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei. This parasite is transmitted to humans and animals through the bite of the tsetse fly. In humans ...

The efforts of a research team give hope for new treatment approaches for dangerous tropical diseases. The researchers have compiled a high-precision inventory of the membrane proteins of cell ...

Researchers are zeroing in on the Achilles’ heel of pathogens that cause Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis.

The researchers studied the pathogen that causes the African sleeping sickness known as Trypanosoma brucei. Trypanosomes have unique cell organelles, so-called glycosomes, which are essential for ...

The researchers studied the pathogen that causes the African sleeping sickness Trypanosoma brucei. Trypanosomes have unique cell organelles, so-called glycosomes, which are essential for the ...

For the first time, patients in Malawi can take a pill instead of enduring toxic IV drugs to survive a fast-moving and deadly ...