Researchers locate protein that could 'turn off' deadly disease carrier
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from Boston College have discovered a protein that plays a pivotal role in the progression of the deadly diseases toxoplasmosis and malaria and shown that its function could be genetically blocked in order to halt the progress of the parasite-borne illnesses, the team reports in the current edition of the journal Science.