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PostSubject: Scientists discover way to stop malaria parasite in its tracks   Scientists discover way to stop malaria parasite in its tracks Icon_minitimeThu Jul 17, 2014 4:16 am

The global race to develop the next generation of malaria drugs has been given a boost after Australian scientists discovered how to starve the malaria parasite of nutrients, effectively killing it before it takes hold.

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The breakthrough, published in Nature on Thursday, comes at a time when the parasite has developed a resistance to anti-malarial drugs, with researchers and health care workers growing increasingly desperate for replacement treatments.

‘’It’s really exciting because we are on our last drug and when that drug goes, there are no more drugs to treat malaria,’’ Burnet Institute director Brendan Crabb, a microbiologist and co-author of the paper, said.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/scientists-discover-way-to-stop-malaria-parasite-in-its-tracks-20140716-ztitg.html
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