Posts Tagged ‘African sleeping sickness’
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Molecule (shown as a stick model in white) attaches to an enzyme (shown in green) essential to the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, inhibiting its activity and causing the death of the organism. (Credit: Galina Lepesheva/Vanderbilt University)
VANDERBILT (US)—Knowing the structure of an enzyme essential to the protozoan parasite that causes African sleeping sickness may lead to new drugs to combat the often fatal disease and several other related disorders that afflict millions of people around the world. Continue…
