Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment.
Haem Biology in Metazoan Parasites – ‘The Bright Side of Haem’ Traditionally, host haem has been recognized as a cytotoxic molecule that parasites need to eliminate or detoxify in order to survive. However, recent evidence indicates that some lineages of parasites have lost genes that encode enzymes involved specifically in endogenous haem biosynthesis. Such lineages...
The latest Paper of the Month from Parasitology is ‘Recent advances in trypanosomatid research: genome organization, expression, metabolism, taxonomy and evolution‘ by Prof. Dmitri A. Maslov If a college graduate with a major in natural sciences is asked: ‘what are eukaryotes?’, the answer would likely be based on what he/she learned in an...
