Crypto Oocysts on Mini Guts (IMAGE)

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Crypto Oocysts on Mini Guts

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The intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium (brown) grows on' mini-guts' (purple) in a dish. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have figured out how to grow the parasite in the lab, an achievement that will speed efforts to treat or prevent diarrhea caused by the parasite.

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Georgia Wilke

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