04 July 2024
Shrugging Off Insults
Trypanasome parasites – single cell organisms causing sleeping sickness and Chagas disease – shirk attacking antibodies from their host's immune system by rapidly recycling their surface membrane. Here the process is elucidated by high-res techniques including electron and fluorescence microscopy
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