A team in Israel believes the hope of a cure for malaria is a step closer after discovering a genetic cloaking device that the parasite uses to evade the immune system and establish infection. They suggest a treatment that interferes with the DNA of the cloaking device could give the immune system a chance to clear the infection. Ron Dzikowski and colleagues from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem write about their findings in a paper that was published online ahead of print in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS on 29 November...
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