The researchers synthesized a molecule inspired by a substance present in Nectandra leucantha (canela-seca or canela-branca).

Leishmaniasis is caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania, transmitted to humans by the bite of a sand fly. Roughly 350 million people are at risk, living in areas that are endemic to ...

Recent outbreaks of the disfiguring, sandfly-spread disease are the result of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s perfect storm of ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that ...

Leishmaniasis, spread by a sandfly vector in warmer climates, can cause really devastating infection of internal organs such as the liver and the spleen, as well as the bone marrow." Related Stories ...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite: Leishmania donovani in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent and Leishmania infantum in Latin America ...

( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis -- a deadly neglected tropical disease -- can be ...

The London-based Alphabet-owned lab will work with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDI) to treat Chagas disease ...

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The London-based Alphabet-owned lab will work with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDI) to treat Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis. Scientists spend years in laboratories mapping ...