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Drug researchers discover class of molecules that kills malaria parasite
- trhway 5y ago>I happen to be amongst the two billion malaria infections in the past decade and fortunately for me, an artemisinin therapy was enough. Unfortunately, there is a growing amount of resistance to these treatments so people are taking artemisinin-based medicines and not getting better. it took basically less than 20 years of mass use for the resistance to develop. Life finds a way. It looks like any one drug would giving time end up with resistance. We probably need some approach that can be routinely promptly adapted in response to the malaria adaptations. Googling mRNA malaria brings a bunch of stuff, and judging by the covid vaccine example may be this time we're going to get technology capable to match/beat the malaria adaptation speed.
- elorant 5y agoThere's is ongoing research on this field. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-mrna-vaccine-yields-full-malaria.html https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-mrna-vaccine-yields-f...
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoNice to have alternatives to malaron, it won't hold forever.
- simonh 5y agoI bet bleach works too.
- ncmncm 5y agoPermanently! And it always will. Shame about the patients, though.
- ta988 5y agoDon't get overly excited, this is only in-vitro assays. There are still a lot of hoops to jump.
- cft 5y agoWhen i see these GDPR flashing popups i just close the news pages now. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- fooker 5y agoRelevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/