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New therapeutic strategies found against Trypanosomiases

Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, along with colleagues from the Technical University of Munich and the Ruhr University Bochum found a trick for outmanoevering parasites causing diseases as African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease. The researchers could first determine the parasite's Achilles heel by using modern structural biology techniques and then develop an inhibitor with a perfect fit. Please find more here

30.08.2012