Parasite Breaks Its Own DNA to Avoid Detection

The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, escapes detection by rearranging its DNA and changing its appearance. Two Rockefeller University laboratories have joined forces to reveal that the parasite initiates its getaway by cleaving both strands of its DNA.

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