Sentences with phrase «as gametocytes»
Her newest project, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, will look at the crucial time when malaria is transmitted — when reproductive cell precursors known as gametocytes develop.
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Two teams have independently discovered that a single regulatory protein acts as the master genetic switch that triggers the development of male and female sexual forms (termed gametocytes) of the malaria parasite, solving a long - standing mystery in parasite biology with important implications for human health.