MALARIA VACCINE
September 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEAN INTERNATIONAL research team has isolated the three-dimensional molecular structure of a protein that could form the heart of a successful malaria vaccine, the USA's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has reported. Thus far, malaria vaccines have only temporarily suppressed the disease, with a future fully protective malaria vaccine probably involving several components. In this instance, scientists studied Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA1), a protein found on the cell membrane of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite causing the most ...
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