Video showing malaria breaking into cell
Posted on January 20, 2011 Comments (3)
Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell [the broken link has been removed]
The Plasmodium parasite responsible for malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is thought to kill almost 1 million people worldwide each year.
Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used transmission electron microscopy and 3D immuno-fluorescence microscopy to record a series of still images during the 30-second-long invasion, and combined them into a movie.
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Categories: Health Care, Life Science, Science
Tags: biology, cell, human health, Life Science, medical research, science webcasts
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