To survive, a parasite mixes and matches its disguises, study suggests
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 13:20
in Biology & Nature
A detailed look at the African sleeping sickness parasite’s strategy for evading its hosts’ immune systems revealed that the blood parasites assume a surprising diversity of protein coat disguises. In fact, the number of disguises necessary to maintain a long-term infection appears to exceed the functional genes that encode them. More »