Revealing secrets of 'African sleeping sickness'

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 14:56 in Biology & Nature

Scientists in the United Kingdom and Russia are reporting identification of a long-sought chink in the armor of the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that kills at least 50,000 people each year. Their study appears in the current edition of ACS Chemical Biology.

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