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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @06:06AM
Yeah, I left it there thinking that an editor wouldn't have the big, aggressive defender to deal with and would kick it through the uprights.
Things worked out as well as I could have anticipated, so I'm pretty much pleased.
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(Score: 1) by martyb on Sunday May 24 2015, @05:04PM
Thanks for the confirmation — given the limited information available, it was a bit of a struggle!
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