Decoded: DNA of blood-sucking worm that infects world's poor

Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 21:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have decoded the genome of the hookworm, Necator americanus, finding clues to how it infects and survives in humans and to aid in development of new therapies to combat hookworm disease.

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