Malaria Parasite Survives Without Hemozoin (IMAGE)

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Malaria Parasite Survives Without Hemozoin

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Compared with a healthy malaria parasite (left), a mutant (right) has reduced levels of the protein hemozoin (detected here through light microsocopy), yet survives.

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Lin et al., 2015

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