Leishmania

Researchers efficiently clear mice of the parasites that cause leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness by inhibiting the parasites’ kinetoplastid proteasomes.

Parasite-derived exosomes boost Leishmania infection in mice. 

A plant used in traditional Mayan remedies to cure the parasitic infection produces a potent compound.

Blood-based Alzheimer’s diagnostics; CRISPR cuts out HIV; Leishmania and the sand fly microbiome; deconstructing the lionfish science fair debacle

The microbial contents of sand fly stomachs may have important consequences for the spread of leishmaniasis.

Meet the species whose DNA has recently been sequenced.

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