How The Malaria Parasite Hijacks Human Red Blood Cells
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 12:35
in Biology & Nature
A new study -- done on a scale an order of magnitude greater than anything previously attempted in the field of malaria -- has uncovered an arsenal of proteins produced by the malaria parasite that allows it to hijack and remodel human red blood cells, leaving the oxygen-carrying cells stiff and sticky.
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