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University of Bristol: New strains of human pathogen responsible for African sleeping sickness can arise by swapping genes between human and animal variants of the parasite

New strains of the human pathogen responsible for African sleeping sickness can arise by swapping genes between human and animal variants of the parasite, new research from the University of Bristol has found. BRISTOL, 14-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — African sleeping … Read the full press release

International researchers discovery could lead to new means to combat malaria

14-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Oxford, NIMR Tanzania and Retrogenix LTD, have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red blood cells stick to the sides of … Read the full press release