Using advanced methodologies that pit drug compounds against specific types of malaria parasite cells, an international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, have identified a potential new weapon and approach for attacking the parasites that cause malaria.Their findings are published in the advanced online publication of Nature.Despite advances in prevention and treatment in recent years, malaria remains one of the world's great infectious scourges.
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