Researchers have been studying the parasite for years, looking for leads to help them develop a vaccine or drugs that would wipe it out. So far, no luck. But now they've found a juicy tidbit that ...

LONDON, March 31 (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 ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis, is a serious disease that mainly affects people in parts of Africa. It can be deadly if not treated, but it is preventable and curable ...

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 ...

Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasites have a complex evolutionary history and life cycle, which relies on tsetse ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A Trypanosomiasis vaccine. [iStockphoto] The flies' infestation was aggravated by the encroachment of settlements to ...

This image shows a three-dimensional map of the basic structural unit in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei’s flagellum, with various mechanical and motor proteins labeled. Millions of people worldwide ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases ...

Prof. Joseph Mathu Ndung'u, Chancellor of JKUAT. He won the African Union Prestigious Excellence Award 2019. [Photo Courtesy] The Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology ...

Cryo-EM structures of human aquaporin AQP2 bound to the anti-trypanosomal drugs pentamidine and melarsoprol identify the molecular mechanism for drug-resistant sleeping sickness.