Deadly parasite's rare sexual dalliances may help scientists neutralize it

For years, microbiologist Stephen Beverley, Ph.D., has tried to get the disease-causing parasite Leishmania in the mood for love. In this week's Science, he and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report that they may have finally found the answer: Cram enough Leishmania into the gut of an insect known as the sand fly, and the parasite will have sex.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news158505728.html">Deadly parasite's rare sexual dalliances may help scientists neutralize it</a></p> <p>For years, microbiologist Stephen Beverley, Ph.D., has tried to get the disease-causing parasite <i>Leishmania</i> in the mood for love. In this week's <i>Science</i>, he and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report that they may have finally found the answer: Cram enough <i>Leishmania</i> into the gut of an insect known as the sand fly, and the parasite will have sex.</p>