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Science 12 September 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5639, pp. 1487 - 1488
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089799
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Perspectives

PARASITOLOGY:
Guilty Until Proven Otherwise

Andrew P. Waters

Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly of the human malaria parasites, continues to ravage rural areas of the developing world. As Waters highlights in his Perspective, high-throughput technology is coming to the rescue with the publication here (Le Roch et al.) and elsewhere of the gene expression profiles (transcriptomes) of P. falciparum at different stages of its life cycle. These transcriptome data sets should contribute to identifying new targets for drug and vaccine development.

The author is in the Department of Parasitology, Malaria Group, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. E-mail: Waters{at}lumc.nl

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