Friday, July 27, 2012

T. brucei...the latest supermodel

Science
Cover Image From: Gilles Vanwalleghem, Daniel Monteyne, Etienne Pays, and David Pérez-Morga, Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium 


SCIENCE COVER: False-colored scanning electron microscopy image of innate immune cells and the parasite Trypanosoma brucei (purple; length: 15 micrometers) in an infected mouse liver. The parasite is transmitted between mammalian hosts, including humans, by the bite of infected tsetse flies and is responsible for human sleeping sickness, a lethal disease that is a serious problem in Africa. 

Cover Image From: Gilles Vanwalleghem, Daniel Monteyne, Etienne Pays, and David Pérez-Morga, Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium 




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