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Keyword - Malaria

- Malaria vaccine gets shot in the arm from tests - Premium content
  
  Promising results pave the way for a vaccine candidate to undergo full-blown trials across Africa.
  
  8 December 2008
- Gabon centre refocuses on emerging diseases - Premium content
  
  Incoming director-general aims to reinvigorate medial institution.
  
  29 October 2008
- Briefing: Millenium development goals under scrutiny - Premium content
  
  At the halfway point of the global project to eradicate poverty, Nature asks how much has been achieved and how science can help.
  
  25 September 2008
- African mutation may increase HIV infection - Premium content
  
  Genetic quirk fends off malaria, but may render Africans more vulnerable to HIV.
  
  16 July 2008
- Human evolution: Details of being human - Premium content
  
  A difference in one molecule led physician Ajit Varki to question what sets humans apart from other apes. Bruce Lieberman meets a man who sees a big picture in the finer points.
  
  2 July 2008
- Social networking site aims to help fight malaria - Premium content
  
  New website gives smaller African projects a bigger profile.
  
  22 April 2008
- How sperm and egg fuse into one - Premium content
  
  Fusion protein could be targeted to stop parasites from reproducing.
  
  25 March 2008
- Malaria: The end of the beginning - Premium content
  
  After decades of work, a pioneering malaria vaccine may soon reach the final phase of clinical trials. In the first of two features on efforts against malaria, Brendan Maher reports on a vaccine that is far from perfect - but which may provide new direction and save thousands of lives.
  
  27 February 2008
- Malaria: The big push - Premium content
  
  Zambia, with help from partners around the world, is stepping up its battle against malaria. Michael Hopkin reports from the rural front line.
  
  27 February 2008
- Malaria fact file - Premium content
  
  Malaria continues to be a global problem, but is the end in sight?
  
  27 February 2008