New Malaria Drug Looks Promising
Researchers hope to use a new class of drugs to exploit the physiology of the malaria parasite by blocking a salt pump at its surface.
Photo: Ezhil Ramalingam
Infected Anopheles mosquitoes carry a parasite in the genus Plasmodium, the cause of the deadly disease malaria.
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