Malaria's Essential Genetic Repertoire Revealed

As one of the deadliest organisms on the planet, the malaria protozoan parasite, in particular Plasmodium falciparum , owes much of its pathogenicity to its unique genomic makeup. This parasite species has a genome that is overwhelmingly skewed toward A-T base pairs (>80%), often making it difficult to study and intractable to basic molecular biological techniques. However now, a team of scientists led by investigators at the University of South Florida has exploited this quirk in the genetic