NIH grantees find metabolic pathway in malaria parasites; possible drug targets
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 05:56
in Biology & Nature
A newly described metabolic pathway used by malaria-causing parasites may help them survive inside human blood cells. The finding, by researchers supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, clarifies the picture of parasite metabolism and provides clues to potential weak points in the pathway that might be attacked with drugs...