Novel RNA-based Vaccine Provides Protection Against Malaria

Generating vaccines toward eukaryotic pathogens has always presented challenges for researchers. While single-celled eukaryotic parasites, such as those that cause malaria may not seem close to humans evolutionarily, at the cellular level vaccine targets become limited due to homology with host molecules. However, now a team of investigators at Yale University has identified a novel target within the malaria parasite that protects against infection against the pathogen in mouse models—pavi