Israeli researchers decode malaria parasite's crystal structure, paving way for new drugs

Malaria kills over 500,000 people annually, predominantly children, with drug-resistant strains complicating treatment efforts.

For nearly two decades, a pair of Israeli chemists pursued the inner architecture of one of humanity's oldest killers, driven by personal memory and scientific curiosity in equal measure. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, Leslie Leiserowitz and Michael Elbaum led an international team of 17 researchers to produce the first complete atomic map of hemozoin — the dark crystals a malaria parasite builds to neutralize its own toxic waste and survive inside human blood. The discovery matters because most antimalarial drugs work by disrupting this very crystallization process, and understanding i

Israeli researchers decode malaria parasite's crystal structure, paving way for new drugs

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