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Malaria Researchers offer new Hope with Genome Maps

The malaria parasite's genome has been mapped – twice

There are some 500 million new cases of malaria every year in 100 countries and up to 2.5 million deaths. Now two new maps of the genome of the plasmodium parasite offer new hope in the search for tools to combat malaria. Clever and resourceful primates adapt to climate change in Senegal. A new study in Peru of the sandfly that spreads the disease leishmaniasis.

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