One research group at the Clemson University Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center has identified a compound that inhibits a key enzyme that brain-eating amoebas need to live, while a second ...

Aldolase, for example, has significant flux control in trypanosomes, but virtually none in the erythrocyte. It is thus a promising target for a drug because, even if it cannot distinguish between ...

Some people of West African of descent face a higher risk of renal failure. New drugs based on gene research may help right ...

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) technical advisory group on human African trypanosomiasis – commonly known as sleeping ...

Steven Williams’ laboratory focuses on research designed to elucidate the molecular biology of the parasites that cause Neglected Tropical Diseases—diseases that afflict the poorest billion people on ...

Proteins of this family inhibit enzymes central to the invasion of the body by foreign organisms (e.g. trypanosomes that cause African Sleeping sickness) and the entry of metastatic cancer cells into ...

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