Secrets of parasite that causes African sleeping sickness
Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 22:30
in Biology & Nature
A team of researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating and even deadly effects of African sleeping sickness. Studying the cause of the disease is vital because, although the transmission of African sleeping sickness by tsetse flies has been studied for more than 100 years, the secret to the underlying parasite's success remains largely a mystery.