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A proposal to search for patterns of genome changes across parasites
Parasites have co-evolved along with their hosts to utilise the host machinery to complete parts of the parasite’s life cycle. Despite potentially large implications for disease biology, common denominators for gene loss and gene gain have not been studied for human and important zoonotic parasi...
By Sukant Khurana, Srijoni Basu, Shail Adrian Jagmag
Repurposing antipsychotic and sleep disorder drugs as anti-parasitics
Antipsychotic and sleep disorder drugs represent a rapidly growing, global market [(1)](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21476952). Novel drugs targeting melatonin [(2)](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=PMID%3A+20577266), serotonin [(3)](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23757185), d...
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