Deadly parasite's rare sexual dalliances may help scientists neutralise it
Friday, April 10, 2009 - 08:14
in Biology & Nature
For years, microbiologist Stephen Beverley, Ph.D., has tried to get the disease-causing parasite Leishmania in the mood for love. In this week's Science, he and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report that they may have finally found the answer: Cram enough Leishmania into the gut of an insect known as the sand fly, and the parasite will have sex...