Malaria, caused by Plasmodium spp., remains a tremendous disease burden worldwide, causing nearly one million deaths and 250 million cases of disease. Artemisinin and artemisinin derivatives are ...

Sanofi was recently awarded one of the US Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) prestigious “Patents for Humanity” awards. Please can you explain why Sanofi was ...

A new study shows disturbing evidence that malaria is becoming resistant to artemisinin, a drug critical for treatment in Africa. Although artemisinin resistance has long plagued the Mekong Delta, it ...

In the 1970s, Chinese government scientists working on a secret “Project 523” developed a new class of potent antimalarial drugs, the artemisinins or qinghaosu derivatives. In mostly unpublished work ...

Antimalarial drug resistance has arisen frequently in the past, causing familiar treatment regimens to fail, with sometimes devastating consequences. Resistance has eventually been managed when new ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have developed a method to synthesize the highly potent antimalarial drug artemisinin, which could lead to a more ...

A top Chinese scientist says her team has found a way to tackle resistance to malaria drug artemisinin, state media reported on Monday. Tu Youyou, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine for ...

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered the mystery behind the potent parasite-killing effect of artemisinin, a drug that is considered to be the last line ...

The active ingredient dihydroartemisinin may offer a new treatment approach for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a study published in Science by researchers from China. However, PCOS ...