New insights into malaria proteins offer pathway to blocking parasite transmission

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Radboud University Medical Center Oct 10 2025 Using millions of microscope images magnified up to 130,000 times, researchers from Radboud university medical center and Toronto have unraveled the structure of two key proteins in the malaria parasite. With this knowledge, scientists are developing new vaccines that block the transmission of parasites via mosquitoes. Malaria, a parasitic infectious disease, has existed since the time of the ancient Egyptians and still threatens nearly half of the

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