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Published online 31 October 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001102-4
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New malaria vaccine?
Scientists may have found the Achilles' heel of the malaria parasite, Valerie Depraetere reports.
Scientists may have taken an important step towards developing an urgently-needed malaria vaccine. The discovery of a protein from the malaria parasite that induces an immune response in chimpanzees could help in the fight against the disease that kills more than one million children in sub-Saharan Africa each year.
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