opinion
To Culture a Parasite
As a biomedical science graduate who has been training at MVRU for just under a month, I’d say that there is hardly a parasite more interesting than P. vivax. To me, what is so attractive about this parasite is not what…Read more »
11th August, 2020opinion
Are we on track to #endmalaria?
Real talk: Are we on track to #endmalaria? This year’s World Malaria Day theme, "Zero Malaria Starts With Me" re-energizes the fight to eliminate malaria which, despite being preventable and treatable, still kills over…Read more »
24th April, 2019opinion
Transferrin receptor 1 is a reticulocyte-specific...
P. vivax is notorious for its strong preference for young red blood cells (reticulocytes). In 1992, Galinski and her team first reported identification of P. vivax proteins responsible for recognising the reticulocytes…Read more »
5th January, 2018