The goal in the world of global health is to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job ...

Sleeping sickness has been killing people across Africa for generations. A disease with no vaccine, spread by the bite of a ...

A single-dose pill for sleeping sickness could simplify treatment and accelerate elimination efforts in Africa.

African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness) is a disease transmitted by tsetse flies and is fatal to humans and other animals; however, there is currently no vaccine, this disease is ...

Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That’s the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness ...

Methods are lacking for controlling the spread of disease among humans and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. Now, a new insight into how tsetse flies mate could bolster the arsenal of tools to manage ...

A completely novel way to develop 'surpamolecules' for drug discovery could have application in immunotherapy as well as this breakthrough design for an anticoagulant with on-demand reversibility.

The image illustrates the combined action of two peptide molecules cooperating to inhibit thrombin. The antidote PNA (peptide nucleic acid) dissociates the two molecules, which ‘switches off’ the anti ...

Geoff Attardo receives funding from National Institutes of Health (#1R21AI128523-01A1 - Unraveling Intersexual Interactions in Tsetse) and the Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne ...