Immunotherapy for Treating Malaria?

When we hear about immunotherapy these days, it’s most often associated with treatments or molecular pathways associated with cancer. But what if these immunological molecules could be exploited to treat one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet—malaria. New evidence from researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Carver College of Medicine shows that targeting an immune checkpoint molecule at the right time during infection allows mice to quickly clear malaria infection