A study of the way malaria parasites behave when they live in human red blood cells has revealed that they can rapidly change the proteins on the surface of their host cells during the course of a single infection in order to hide from the immune system.
The findings, which overturn previous…
Fast-changing genes help malaria to hide in the human body
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