Malaria: A Genetic Breakthrough

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Fri Oct 4 18:38:23 PDT 2002


Economist.com

A genetic breakthrough

Oct 3rd 2002
>From The Economist Global Agenda

The complete genomes of both the parasite that causes malaria and the mosquito that carries it have now been unravelled. This opens up new ways to combat one of the world's worst killers

ANOTHER day, another genome. What was once a matter of intense scientific interest-mapping the entire genetic material of a species-has become routine. But not all genomes are equal in the sight of humanity. Details of two that are of more interest than most have just been released.

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1372159



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