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Toothpaste

AI 'scientist' finds that toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria

18 Jan 2018

An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant...

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Blood transfusion bags

Reducing number of infectious malaria parasites in donated blood could help prevent transmission during transfusion

21 Apr 2016

A technique for reducing the number of infectious malaria parasites in whole blood could significantly reduce the number of cases of transmission of...

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Eve, the Robot Scientist

Artificially-intelligent Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ could boost search for new drugs

04 Feb 2015

Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’ could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...

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Harry J. Moss

New tool in the fight against tropical diseases

27 Feb 2013

Screening method created to expedite the development of new drugs in the fight against tropical diseases such as malaria and African sleeping...

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Finding malaria's weak spot

06 Feb 2013

A ground-breaking imaging system to track malarial infection of blood cells in real time has been created by a collaboration catalysed by the...

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