Home improvements: how the Malaria parasite makes the red blood cell home sweet home Free
G. Lucas Starnes and Andrew P. Waters*
Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical Life Sciences, Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 120 University Place, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK *Correspondence to:Andrew P. Waters, E-mail: a.waters@bio.gla.ac.uk
A recent study published in Nature by de Koning-Ward et al. provides further insights into the way in which the lethal malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, remodels the host red blood cell during the pathogenic blood stage of development.
