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Traditional medicine plant could combat drug-resistant malaria
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Traditional medicine plant could combat drug-resistant malaria

Peer-Reviewed Publication AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY IMAGE: THE LEAVES OF THE DWARF LABRADOR TEA PLANT CONTAIN AN OIL THAT COULD HELP FIGHT MALARIA. CREDIT: ADAPTED FROM ACS OMEGA, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/ACSOMEGA.3C00235 Much of what is now considered modern medicine originated as folk remedies or traditional, Indigenous practices. These customs are still alive today, and they could...

This parasite will self-destruct: researchers discover new weapon against drug-resistant malaria
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This parasite will self-destruct: researchers discover new weapon against drug-resistant malaria

Diagrammatic representation of the target of the antimalarial compound ML901 (coloured structure), showing highly specific and potent inhibition of the malaria parasite. ML901 finds a particular chink in an enzyme called tyrosine tRNA synthetase (depicted in pink), part of the machinery that the malaria parasite uses to generate the proteins needed to reproduce itself. The...