MALARIA VACCINE
September 1st, 2005
BY DEIRDRE MASONEXCITING developments in malaria vaccine research may lead to a strengthened armoury against a disease that now infects about 400 million people worldwide and kills close to 2 million children a year. An international research project, led by Dr Adrian Batchelor from Maryland University, USA, has pinpointed a section of an important segment of "apical membrane antigen 1" or AMA-1 to those in the know, a protein produced by the malaria parasite during a critical stage of this complex, but deadly, organism's development.Using x-ray techniques at the ...
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