[HN Gopher] Drug researchers discover potent class of molecules ...
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       Drug researchers discover potent class of molecules that kills
       malaria parasite
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2021-06-23 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | BiteCode_dev wrote:
       | Nice to have alternatives to malaron, it won't hold forever.
        
       | trhway wrote:
       | >I happen to be amongst the two billion malaria infections in the
       | past decade and fortunately for me, an artemisinin therapy was
       | enough. Unfortunately, there is a growing amount of resistance to
       | these treatments so people are taking artemisinin-based medicines
       | and not getting better.
       | 
       | it took basically less than 20 years of mass use for the
       | resistance to develop. Life finds a way. It looks like any one
       | drug would giving time end up with resistance. We probably need
       | some approach that can be routinely promptly adapted in response
       | to the malaria adaptations. Googling mRNA malaria brings a bunch
       | of stuff, and judging by the covid vaccine example may be this
       | time we're going to get technology capable to match/beat the
       | malaria adaptation speed.
        
         | elorant wrote:
         | There's is ongoing research on this field.
         | 
         | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-mrna-vaccine-yields-f...
        
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