skunkbear:The development of antimalarial drugs is fascinating – it is often driven by war and conqu
skunkbear:The development of antimalarial drugs is fascinating – it is often driven by war and conquest. When human beings got busy trying to kill each other (during the era of colonial expansion, WWII, the Vietnam War), they often found themselves face to face with an even deadlier foe. Check out my animation that explores this incredible history.Read more about the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.By the way, treating malaria is amazing because with bacteria, they have key organelles that are very, very different from ours. So we can exploit that and kill them easily! Malaria is harder because it’s caused by an organism with cells much closer to our own evolutionarily, so this is a really exciting discovery. -- source link
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