Solving a Malaria Mystery Identifies New Drug Targets (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Solving a Malaria Mystery Identifies New Drug Targets (1 of 2)

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An electron micrograph of a malaria parasite inside its host red blood cell, ready to burst out. The small merozoites will each find a new red blood cell to invade and grow in. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 Oct. 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.S. Nasamu at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Mo., and colleagues was titled, "Plasmepsins IX and X are essential and druggable mediators of malaria parasite egress and invasion."

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Armiyaw Nasamu and Wandy Beatty, Washington University

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