“Parasite Street Science” is a recent public engagement project by Dr Nicola Veitch and a team of scientists of the University of Glasgow that uses exciting street theatre performances to educate and ...

Thanks to efforts by MSF, the immediate future for those with sleeping sickness looks considerably brighter than the recent past, but the long-term prognosis isn't clear. The story of the reemergence ...

"Parasite Street Science" is a recent public engagement project by Dr Nicola Veitch and a team of scientists of the University of Glasgow that uses exciting street theatre performances to educate and ...

Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research published in PLOS Computational Biology shows. The West African form of the disease, also ...

Among the trypanosomes' weapons of woe is African sleeping sickness, which threatens more than 60 million people in 36 countries in sub-Saharan regions. The World Health Organization estimates that ...

In another step to combat deadly African sleeping sickness, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has presented a $22.6 million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to fund a Phase ...

A small clinical trial in Uganda, conducted within a long-established Medecins Sans Frontieres treatment program for African sleeping sickness, has found that a new combination treatment using the ...

Researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that enables trypanosomes to reach the salivary glands of the flies. LMU researchers have deciphered a crucial signaling mechanism that ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have discovered a new way of tackling the fatal parasitic disease African sleeping sickness which they say could pave the way for the development of safe, ...

Although African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, has fallen in prominence to become extremely rare, the drug acoziborole may help the World Health Organization’s goal of eradicating ...

Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research published in PLOS Computational Biology shows. The West African form of the disease, also ...