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Researchers unlock how key drug kills tropical parasites

In a major breakthrough that comes after decades of research and nearly half a billion treatments in humans, scientists have finally unlocked how a key anti-parasitic drug kills the worms brought on by the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A milestone toward ending river blindness in the Western Hemisphere by 2012

An international team of researchers led by Rodrigo Gonzalez of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala reports that the transmission of onchocerciasis or river blindness has been broken in Escuintla, Guatemala, one of the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0