Malaria toxin made to turn on itself.

• Position: Immunology - Brief Article

By mimicking a toxin produced by the most-lethal malaria parasite, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and in Australia report that they have created a vaccine that is extremely effective in mice. The scientists hope their work may lead to a human vaccine against the lethal tropical disease.

"After much tenacious searching, Louis Schofield of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne identified the complex sugar within the toxin that causes the fatal forms of the disease," notes MIT...