Researchers Identify New Steps in Spread of Malaria Parasite Through Bloodstream

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 15:21 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have observed two previously unknown steps in the spread of the malaria parasite through the bloodstream. And in laboratory cultures, the researchers interfered with one of these steps, raising the possibility that new drug treatments could be developed to combat the disease.

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