Sequence is scaffold to study sleeping sickness

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 04:21 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have made a further step toward understanding sleeping sickness - a chronic disease caused by Trypanosoma parasites, which affect the human central nervous system. The team have generated a high-quality draft genome sequence for the strain of Trypanosoma brucei that is responsible for almost all reported cases of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness...

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