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Tracing Malaria’s Pathways

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Membrane fluctuations offer clues to cells’ health


For the past five or six years, a team at MIT in Cambridge has been probing the structural, biochemical and mechanical changes induced by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. These changes include the formation of vacuoles around parasites as they grow in their host red blood cells, decreases in cell volume and the emergence of nanoscale “knobs” on the surface of the cell membranes. In the Sept. 16 issue of PNAS, a study by the group reported additional changes and how they might be influenced by pathological status. Researchers have long suspected that membranes fluctuate because...Read full article

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    Published: December 2008
    biochemicalBiophotonicscellsmembranesMicroscopynanoscaleResearch & Technology

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