Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.
Targeting these proteins may hold promise for identifying new drugs that are less susceptible to resistance.
Malaria infects over 200 million and kills over 500,000 people every year. It is caused by Plasmodium parasites infecting red blood cells…
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