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...preliminary study that is interesting because it begins to use the manipulation of malaria as a genetic system," said Dr. Samuel I. Miller, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical School and a member of the Infectious Diseases Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...essence, the team had created a luminous Plasmodium, one which should shed some light on the genetic processes which eventually lead to human infection by malaria and disease...
...going to be able to functionally analyze parasite genes which may lead to genetically attenuated malaria parasites as vaccines," said Professor of Tropical Public Health Dyann F. Wirth, one of the project's collaborators...
Wirth suggested that the flu vaccine presents a model for using her team's successful transfection technique for such a treatment against malaria...
...next step is to understand the parasite genes and to genetically engineer malaria parasites in order to prevent it from causing disease, as in the influenza vaccine," Wirth said...