Mutant parasites offer Montana State University researchers hope in fight against malaria

Parasites that cause malaria and other significant diseases are clever squatters that lurk in the body, waiting for an opportune time to assert themselves, scientists have learned. They survive by finding the right place to hide, stealing food from their hosts and evading the body’s immune system.

Judgment Day may be coming, however.

By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service

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