The Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Michael Adikwu, has stressed the need for more research into the epidemiology of the Sickle Cell disease in order tackle it. He also posited that if the government funds the final treatment of the disease through bone marrow transplant properly, that might bring an end of…

A Plasmodium vivax infection is like an iceberg: It's dangerous, in part, because much of it hides out of view. A new study published this week in mBio shows how researchers are revealing more of this parasite's biology. P. vivax is the malaria parasite responsible for the vast majority of infections outside sub-Saharan Africa. In…