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Malaria - the genetic solution

Using genetics to help analyse the parasite that causes malaria

Using genetics to help analyse the parasite that causes malaria. Malaria has been around for thousands of years. The programme tracks the development of the disease using modern genetic analytical techniques and seeing how it may help the battle to defeat malaria. How we can understand the parasite, plasmodium falciparum that carries malaria into bodies.

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