Revealing the structure of malaria parasite crystals in unprecedented detail could lead to improved antimalarial drugs.

It also excludes the vast majority of potential therapeutics, severely limiting treatment options for brain tumors ... Bracha and her colleagues introduced the engineered parasite to human brain cells ...

The results suggest that medications that block DMT1 might be very ... specific inhibitor of this transporter that has minimal impacts on the human protein.” The fact that the parasites die so quickly ...

Can a common parasite help treat Alzheimer’s? Scientists say Toxoplasma gondii may open pathways to brain therapies for ...

The results suggest that medications that block DMT1 ... And getting that iron from the human red blood cells in which the parasites live and divide is no simple task. "We still don't really ...