Plasmodium Gametocytes Display Homing and Vascular Transmigration in the Host Bone Marrow (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Plasmodium Gametocytes Display Homing and Vascular Transmigration in the Host Bone Marrow (1 of 3)

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Model depicting how malaria parasites can home, transmigrate and develop in the bone marrow niche. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 23 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Mariana De Niz at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Plasmodium gametocytes display homing and vascular transmigration in the host bone marrow."

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Dr. Nicolas Brancucci (University of Glasgow, UK and University of Bern, Switzerland)

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