Apicoplasts are organelles that were discovered in parasites like the one that causes malaria. How did scientists discover these organelles, and what do they do?

To find new therapeutic targets, researchers at Nagasaki University are revealing details about the parasite’s life cycle ... that cause malaria in humans, Plasmodium falciparum is the deadliest.

It illustrates balanced polymorphism because carriers are resistant to malaria, an infection by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum that ... the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary ...