image: Plasmodium falciparum transmission stage (gametocyte, labeled in red) at an erythroblastic island structure within the bone marrow of an infected individual. Erythrocyte precursor cells are labeled in blue. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the July 9, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. R. Joice at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass., and colleagues was titled, 'Plasmodium falciparum transmission stages accumulate in the human bone marrow.' view more
Credit: Credit: Regina Joice, Matthias Marti/Harvard School of Public Health