Watch: Scientists have worked out how the malaria parasite ‘jumped from gorillas to humans’
A particular gene called RH5 was found to be central to the study because it is ‘absolutely essential to allow a parasite to invade red blood cells’.
Scientists resurrected a 50,000-year-old gene sequence and used it figure out how the malaria parasite jumped from gorillas to humans. This molecular pathway now be used to try to pre-empt any kind of transfer that might happen in the future https://t.co/sjousE955u pic.twitter.com/6di3xr7ffo
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