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X-ray Laser Helps Fight Sleeping Sickness

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MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 29, 2012 — A weak spot in the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, a disease that kills an estimated 30,000 people each year, has been mapped using an x-ray laser, pinpointing a promising new target for treating the fly-borne illness. An international group used the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to study African trypanosomiasis, a disease transmitted by tsetse flies infected with the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. About 60 million people across Africa are at risk for contracting the disease. Researchers have revealed...Read full article

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    Published: November 2012
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