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29 July 2026
Complicated but Replicated
Malaria-causing parasites Plasmodium parasites have a complicated life – adapted to infecting and replicating in insects, mainly mosquitos, then once passed on by a bite from that insect, infecting and replicating within vertebrates – existing in a number of forms in different tissues of its different hosts. Here, researchers show how plasmodium achieves high-fidelity replication throughout its life history, as a result of proteins SFA1 and SFA2's stabilising role
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- Image from work by Buyuan He and Ilzat Ali, and colleagues
- Department of Parasitology, Center of Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in The EMBO Journal, July 2026
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