Dual RNA Packing Proteins Aid Malaria Parasite Transmission

Malaria remains a complicated global health problem that is on the precipice of a resurgence in areas where it has long since subsided if climate change continues its “heated” rise. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow this pervasive parasite to traverse multiple hosts could hold the key to disease elimination, or, at the very least, keeping outbreaks under control. Now, investigators at Penn State University (PSU) have uncovered that malaria parasites have not one, but