Malaria Parasites Have Intrinsic Circadian Clocks (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Malaria Parasites Have Intrinsic Circadian Clocks (2 of 5)

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Haase and Takahashi groups find evidence for a malaria parasite clock. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 May issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.M. Smith at Duke University in Durham, NC, and colleagues was titled, "An intrinsic oscillator drives the blood stage cycle of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum."

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[Credit: Shawna Brakefield-Haase]

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