April 8, 2009
By Maggie Fox
U.S. researchers said they had designed a new kind of malaria drug that kills the parasite that causes the disease and keeps it from becoming resistant to the drug.
Tests in mice show the compound also helps other malaria drugs work better, the researchers reported in the journal Nature.
Now they are looking for funding to step up development, Jane Kelly and colleagues at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center and Oregon Health and Science University in Portland said.
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