image: This is a sporozoite (green) within a human liver cell (blue = cell nucleus). The green cloud contains proteins shed by the sporozoite when it invades the liver cell. The immune response to these proteins triggers protection against malaria. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 8, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. J.E. Epstein of US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Md., and colleagues was titled, "Live Attenuated Malaria Vaccine Designed to Protect through Hepatic CD8+ T Cell Immunity." view more
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