Male birth control for the malaria parasite
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 09:40
in Biology & Nature
Disrupting two genes involved in the preservation of RNA molecules inhibits the ability of the male form of the malaria parasite to mature and be transmitted from human blood into mosquitoes, interrupting a key stage in the parasite’s life-cycle and cutting off an important step in the spread of the disease. Researchers at Penn State […]