Parasite Speed Saves Malaria from Immune Capture

In Aesop’s fable “The Hare and the Tortoise,” the steady perseverance of the much slower tortoise pays off in his race against the considerably faster, but overconfident hare. As a parallel, the significantly quicker malaria parasite could be resigned to the same fate as the hare—with a little medicinal help of course—in its battle to avoid the much slower immune cells that reside within human skin. Now, investigators at the Centre for Infectious Diseases at Heidelb