Thursday, 28 November 2013

Scientists Identify New Target in War on Malaria

A new target in the parasite that causes malaria has been identified by scientists. Malaria is a disease that causes more than a half a million deaths annually. Potential drugs can aim at a newly-discovered enzyme that the parasite uses to metabolise energy at every stage of its infection in humans, they said. The finding, published in the journal Nature, is important because only a tiny handful of weaknesses have been found that apply to every stage ...

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