Dr. Justin Boddey and Dr. Ethan Goddard-Borger, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (IMAGE)
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Dr. Justin Boddey (left) and Dr. Ethan Goddard-Borger looking at mosquitoes in the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute insectary. Dr. Boddey and Dr. Goddard-Borger led a Walter and Eliza Hall Institute team in Melbourne, Australia, that has shown for the first time that carbohydrates on the surface of malaria parasites play a critical role in malaria's ability to infect mosquito and human hosts. The discovery also suggests steps that may improve the only malaria vaccine approved to protect people against Plasmodium falciparum malaria -- the most deadly form of the disease.
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