August 31, 2011
University of California, San Francisco
Malaria Discovery Gives Hope for New Drugs and Vaccines
By Jason Bardi
An investigation into the mysterious inner workings of the malaria parasite has revealed that it survives and proliferates in the human bloodstream thanks in part to a single, crucial chemical that the parasite produces internally.
According to scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford Medical School, reporting today in the journal PLoS Biology ...
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