Genetic code cracked for a devastating blood parasite
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have cracked the genetic code and predicted some high priority drug targets for the blood parasite Schistosoma haematobium, which is linked to bladder cancer and HIV/ AIDS and causes the insidious urogenital disease schistosomiasis haematobia in more than 112 million people in Africa.