Revealing secrets of 'African sleeping sickness'
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 08:07
in Biology & Nature
Scientists in the United Kingdom and Russia are reporting identification of a long-sought chink in the armour of the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that kills at least 50,000 people each year. Their study appears in the current edition of ACS Chemical Biology, a monthly journal...
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