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The researchers plan to repeat the experiments with human malaria, a more challenging prospect. (scientificamerican.com)
The researchers note that this strategy of vaccination with the functional protein AMA1 - RON2 complex could be tested in the next generation of human malaria vaccines. (sciencedaily.com)
Entomologist Bart Knols of Wageningen University in the Netherlands cautions that cage conditions are very different from those of the field, where many other factors influence an insect's survival; what's more, the results may not hold up in human malaria, he says. (sciencemag.org)