Recent findings illuminate research in malaria vaccines.

Presents new data on malaria vaccines from researchers in France and the U.S. Completion of a preliminary structural analysis of the ectoplasmic region of apical membrane antigen 1 from Plasmodium vivax, a malaria vaccine candidate; Production of the subdomains of the Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 ectodomain; Consideration of Plasmodium ookinete-secreted proteins secreted through a common micronemal pathway as the target of blocking malaria transmission.