How malaria hijacks the immune system

Malaria parasites hijack a part of the human immune response called the complement system to invade red blood cells, according to new study published in EBioMedicine. This finding could help in the design, development and testing of more effective anti-malaria vaccines. The complement system The complement system, part of the innate immune system, consists of 

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Fighting antibiotic resistance with bacteriophage

A recent study published in the Nature-affiliated journal Scientific Reports describes the use of bacteriophage, or phage, to reverse resistance of the bacteria Pseudomonas aueroginosa to antibiotics. Phage are viruses that attack bacteria and this particular bacteriophage, OMKO1 (family Myoviridae), was found in a pond in East Lyme, Connecticut, not far from lead author Dr. 

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