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Article: Malarial Pathogen, Plasmodium falciparum, Aced Ace Chloroquin Drug Long Ago; New Ploys Afoot.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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On the genomic family tree of life on earth, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) come closer to humans (Homo sapiens) than any other animal. Their respective genomes are only 2 percent apart.
"The human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, according to evolution," observed parasitologist and molecular biologist Xin-zhuan Su, "reportedly separated from the chimpanzee parasite about 6 million years ago."
Su, a tenure-track investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., is senior author of two back-to-back papers in today's Nature, dated July 18, 2002. One, relevant to the out-of-Africa ...