Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell

By Richard on January 20, 2011 7:11 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
This is incredible. Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia have managed to capture a malaria parasite on film - in the process of infecting a human red blood cell. Check it out:



Honestly, this gives me the creeps - especially at the end, when the malarial offspring burst from the host cell.

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