Investigators identify molecular switch allowing parasites to survive without oxygen inside host
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Around 1 billion people on the planet are infected with parasitic helminths, round worms that live in soil and colonize human guts through dirty water. The helminths owe their ability to survive in the low oxygen environment of the human gut to a unique enzyme variant, Donnelly Centre researchers have found.