Plasmodium falciparum causes the most severe and fatal form of malaria in humans with
over half a million deaths each year. Cerebral malaria, a complex neurological syndrome of …

Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy is a flexible tool for identifying the
distribution of trace elements in biological specimens across a broad range of sample sizes …

Cerebral malaria is the most serious complication of malaria infection, with 26% of surviving
children having neurological sequelae, which may be caused by neuron damage, but the …

Complications from malaria parasite infections still cost the lives of close to half a million
people every year. The most severe is cerebral malaria (CM). Employing murine models of …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major international health and economic concern. A key
pathological feature of AD is so-called “amyloid-β-plaques”, or “Aβ-plaques”, which are …

Trace elements analysis is a fundamental challenge in environmental sciences. Scientists
measure trace elements in environmental media in order to assess the quality and safety of …

Biochemical changes in specific organelles underpin cellular function, and studying these
changes is crucial to understand health and disease. Fluorescent probes have become …

Imaging energy metabolites as markers of the energy shuttle between glia and neurons
following ischemia is an ongoing challenge. Traditional microscopies in combination with …

Microvesicles (MVs) are involved in cell‐cell interactions, including disease pathogenesis.
Nondestructive Fourier‐transform infrared (FTIR) spectra from MVs were assessed as a …

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy has been well documented to discriminate
between protein secondary structures, at the micron scale. This capability has enabled in …