Dartmouth Medical School gene targeting discovery opens door for vaccines and drugs
Date: 22.4.2009
In a **genetic leap** that could help fast track **vaccine** and **drug** development to prevent or tame serious global diseases, DMS researchers have discovered how to destroy a key **DNA pathway** in a wily and widespread human **parasite**.
The feat surmounts a major hurdle for targeting genes in *Toxoplasma gondii*, an infection model whose close relatives are responsible for diseases that include malaria and severe diarrhea.
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