BEFORE SEX, MALARIA BUG GOES ‘BANANAS’
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Knowing how a fatal jungle fever parasite becomes banana-shaped before sex-related recreation may help quit the illness. taruhan olahraga sbobet judi bola terbaik This finding could provide targets for injection or medication development and may discuss how the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, evades the human body immune system. The work was led by Matthew Dixon and doctoral trainee Megan Dearnley from the division of biochemistry and molecular biology's Bio21 Institute at the College of Melbourne, and is released in the Journal of Cell Scientific research. [sources] Dixon says the new study refixes a 130-year old mystery, exposing how one of the most fatal of human jungle fever bloodsuckers, Plasmodium falciparum, performs its shape-shifting. "In 1880 the banana or crescent form of the jungle fever parasite wased initially seen in the blood of a client. Using a 3D microscopic lense method, we expose that jungle fever uses a scaffold of unique healthy pr...