In the quest to develop more effective treatments for parasitic diseases, scientists look for weaknesses in the organisms’ molecular machinery. Researchers recently contributed to that understanding by discovering the function of a specific protein in the three related parasites that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis — diseases that are sometimes fatal and afflict millions worldwide.
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Source: ScienceDaily