Johns Hopkins Medicine Jun 13 2025 New research suggests that a pigment that causes yellowing of the skin, or jaundice, may help protect people from the most severe consequences of malaria. The report, which builds on a previous Johns Hopkins Medicine study on the protective role of bilirubin in the brain, is a collaboration between the labs of Miguel Soares, Ph.D., at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine in Portugal, and Bindu Paul, Ph.D., at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The parasitic