Researchers identify sequence leading to release of malaria parasites from red blood cells
Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 06:50
in Biology & Nature
The vacuole, a compartment inside human red blood cells in which malaria parasites reproduce and develop, takes on a distinct spherical shape just minutes before its membrane ruptures, leading to the release of parasites into the blood stream, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. Their study appears in Cellular Microbiology.