X-Ray Laser Helps Fight Sleeping Sickness: Exploiting Parasite’s Weak Spot May Lead to New Treatments, Department of Energy Study

An international group of scientists working at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has mapped a weak spot in the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, pinpointing a promising new target for treating a disease that kills tens of thousands of people each year.

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