Word: malariae
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...Park) and also in fossilized dinosaur poop. Among other things in their lode, they've found ticks, nematodes, biting flies and all sorts of other nasties, including intestinal parasites, dating back to the Cretaceous period. From some of the insects, the Poinars have extracted microbes that cause leishmania and malaria - evidently new pathogens back then, against which dinosaurs wouldn't have had much resistance...
Gaglani spent last summer and this semester developing an assay—a genetic test—that will detect drug-resistant versions of malaria, a disease that kills over 1 million people each year...
...assay searches for small DNA mutations that cause the malaria parasite to be drug resistant. The DNA mutations are the culprits because they lead to changes in the proteins that an organism produces...
Gaglani said he chose to research malaria because it is “such a huge problem” despite having been mostly eradicated in the United States...
Gaglani said he feels a special connection to Africa, as he was born in Namibia, although he is of Indian descent. He said he hopes to go to Africa within the next two or three years to help train African scientists to use the assay to fight malaria...