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'Liver-Stage Malaria in a Dish' Enables to Study the Influence of Host Genetics on Antimalarial Drug Efficacy

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research team has engineered a way to use human liver cells, derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), to screen potential antimalarial drugs and vaccines for their ability to treat the liver stage of malaria infection. This novel approach may offer new opportunities for personalized antimalarial drug testing and the development of more effective individually tailored drugs to combat the disease, which leads to more than ...

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