New discovery may help prevent life-threatening malaria in mums-to-be

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February 4th 2010 by ANI in News

Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Danish scientists have made a novel discovery that would help in preventing life-threatening malaria in pregnant women and their unborn children. The team from University of Copenhagen have identified a protein known as VAR2CSA that enables malaria parasites to accumulate in the placenta and can therefore potentially be used as the [...]

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