"The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite
invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in
high resolution.
The Plasmodium parasite responsible for
malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is thought to
kill almost 1 million people worldwide each year.
Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of
Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used transmission
electron microscopy, immuno-fluorescence and 3D super-resolution microscopy to
record thousands of high-definition images of separate invasion events, a process
that takes less than 30 seconds."
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