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EXTENDED: The Genetics of Drug Resistance (and Design) with Caroline Simmons
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The malaria parasite is becoming increasingly resistant to the drugs we use against it.
Caroline Simmons, a geneticist at the University of South Florida, is trying to understand what's driving this. By creating mutants of the parasite, and testing drugs against them, she's piecing together the complex puzzle of antimalarial drug resistance.
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