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8 years ago

Scientists Just Found One of the Most Promising Malaria Vaccine Targets to Date

This is how we stop malaria grabbing onto our blood cells.

In spite of a decade of intense research, we still don’t have a commercially available vaccine for malaria.

While a candidate vaccine is being piloted next year, scientists have found a potentially more promising target in the bridge malaria makes with our red blood cells, which could lead to a more effective, cheaply made vaccine.