First malaria-human contact mapped with Nobel Prize-winning technology

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Scientists have taken a significant step toward developing a new vaccine for malaria, revealing for the first time an ‘atomic-scale’ blueprint of how the parasite invades human cells. Using the Nobel Prize-winning technology cryo-EM (cryo-electron microscopy), the researchers mapped the previously hidden first contact between Plasmodium vivax malaria parasites and young red blood cells they invade to begin the parasites’ spread throughout the body.
First malaria-human contact mapped with Nobel Prize-winning technology
First malaria-human contact mapped with Nobel Prize-winning technology
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