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Researchers identify a means of controlling a parasite that kills and eats human cells

Researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Vermont have discovered a means of inhibiting one of the world’s most voracious parasites. The study, published Friday, Jan. 18 in PLoS Pathogens, targets a protein which aids the parasite in ingestion of immune cell corpses.

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