The results show, for the first time, that the process of swapping genetic information, known as recombination, happens not when the malaria parasite is inside the mosquito, as previously thought, but during the asexual stage of the parasite's lifecycle
inside human blood cells.
Not exact matches
They recoated the
insides of the
blood vessels by flowing
human stem
cells through the tubes attached to the artery and vein.
In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with
human lung
cells on the
inside and overlaid with
human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs.
Scientists have investigated what the malaria parasite does when it is living
inside human red
blood cells.
You'll be controlling a tiny ship about the size of a
blood cell,
inside the
human body.