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Article: AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS FIND NEW GENE IN MALARIA PARASITE.
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- February 24, 2000
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MELBOURNE, Feb 24 Asia Pulse - Australian scientists believe they are closer to understanding why the malaria parasite, passed to humans through mosquito bites, is resistant to some drugs.
Researchers from Victoria's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) and Canberra's Australian National University said they had discovered a new gene in the cells of the malaria parasite which controls drug accumulation.
Dr Alan Cowman from the WEHI said the discovery of the new gene had important implications for the development of new drugs to fight malaria, which kills 2.5 million people a year.
The malaria parasite had managed to develop ...