Biting Mosquito (IMAGE)

Penn State

Biting Mosquito

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New research shows that sporozoite stage parasites inside their mosquito host use translational repression to prepare for unpredictable transmission from mosquitoes to humans. This energetically expensive strategy might have weak spots that could be exploited to fight malaria.

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Penn State

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