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posted by martyb on Saturday May 23 2015, @08:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the giving-malaria-the-blues dept.

"gewg_" writes with news of a story appearing in The Register: Viagra makes it HARD for malaria, bug-boffins discover:

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has been buying Viagra, in a good cause: it seems to help beat one of the common malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum.

The mechanism is even analogous to Viagra's better-known effect: it makes infected red blood cells stiffer, which marks them down to be cleaned out by the spleen.

The full journal article is available at PLOS Pathogens: cAMP-Signalling Regulates Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocyte Deformability Required for Malaria Parasite Transmission.

 
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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @09:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @09:44PM (#186979)

    now even a mosquito-dick like Ethanol can get it up.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday May 23 2015, @10:22PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday May 23 2015, @10:22PM (#186984) Homepage

    Fuck you, cocksucker.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:20PM (#186993)

      I visit this site once a week, and whenever I do I'm pretty much guaranteed to run across at least one post mentioning penises, cocks, or some other such word.

      Why are the people at this site so obsessed with penises?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:24PM (#186995)

      NCommander, can you please ban this clown.

      • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:27PM (#186996)

        Why should he be banned just for having a small penis? I think that's totally wrong, and very discriminatory. It isn't socially acceptable to treat somebody like dirt just because they may have a handicap.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:56PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:56PM (#187156)

          Since when is a small penis a handicap? And what even counts as a "small penis"? Despite what people tell their girlfriends, the average is only about 5.5 inches but women don't give a shit [medicalnewstoday.com] (unless you have a micropenis [wikipedia.org] and can't even get past the labia), its only people who love having their mouths full of cock like the GP that care about dick size.