Breakthrough in malaria treatment in the run up to World Malaria Day
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
Ahead of World Malaria Day (25 April), researchers have discovered that drugs originally designed to inhibit the growth of cancer cells can also kill the parasite that causes malaria. They believe this discovery could open up a new strategy for combating this deadly disease, which infected around 225 million and killed nearly 800,000 people worldwide in 2009.