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Tag: Plasmodium falciparum

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TWiP 91: Born to deform

  • June 20, 2015
  • Tagged as: cAMP, Cialis, deformability, erythrocyte, gametocyte, malaria, parasite, parasitism, phosphodiesterase, Plasmodium falciparum, protein kinase A, sildenafil, transmission, Viagra

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel review how Viagra might be used to block transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study.

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TWiP 90: A carbuncle is a large furuncle

  • May 30, 2015
  • Tagged as: CD44, CD55, erythrocyte, forward genetic screen, invasion, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, siRNA

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss identification of an erythrocyte protein essential for invasion of Plasmodium falciparum, and introduce a new case study.

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TWiP 74: Nature has all the answers, what is your question?

  • July 4, 2014
  • Tagged as: antigen, egress, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, red blood cell, schizont, vaccine

Vincent and Dickson review a novel malaria vaccine candidate comprising a parasite protein involved in egress from red blood cells.

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TWiP 69: Malaria rising

  • March 29, 2014
  • Tagged as: climate change, global warming, malaria, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, spatiotemporal

Vincent and Dickson discuss an increase in the altitude of malaria distribution in warmer years in the highlands of Colombia and Ethiopia.

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TWiP 46: Malaria gets the (zinc) finger

  • October 16, 2012
  • Tagged as: gene editing, gene replacement, malaria, mutagenesis, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, zinc finger nuclease

Vincent and Dickson meet with Judith Straimer and Marcus Lee to discuss their method for site-specific genome editing in Plasmodium falciparum using zinc finger nucleases.

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TWiP 43: Two remarkable host-parasite conflicts

  • August 23, 2012
  • Tagged as: adenylate cyclase, innate immunity, malaria, miRNA, parasite, parasitism, Plasmodium falciparum, sickle cell, Trypanosoma brucei, trypanosome

Vincent and Dickson review how sickle cell microRNAs contribute to malaria resistance, and inhibition of innate immune responses by an enzyme from trypanosomes.

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