New Hope in the Fight Against Malaria

For decades, the primary treatment for malaria was chloroquine, but the parasite that causes malaria has become resistant to the drug. There's a new, effective treatment called artemisinin-based combination therapy, but production of the drug is a very expensive and time-consuming process. Jay Keasling, from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is working on producing artemisinin inside microbes.

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Science & Technology

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• malaria
• mosquito
• chloroquine
• lbnl
• lawrence
• berkeley
• microbes
• university
• california