Analogues of a natural product are drug candidates against malaria

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

Two analogues of borrelidin were found to cure 100 percent of infected mice and produce immunological memory in these animals, a property not previously observed in an antimalarial drug. Growing resistance to current treatment for malaria increases the need for new drug candidates.

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