Belgian scientists say that small antibodies taken from the dromedary may prove useful in treating tropical parasites such as the African trypanosome, which causes sleeping sickness. Penetrating the ...

"Trypanosomes are masters at hiding from the immune system through antigenic variation," says Siegel. "Their cells are enshrouded by a dense, homogeneous coat of surface glycoproteins, which they ...

“Trypanosomes are masters at hiding from the immune system through antigenic variation,” says Siegel. “Their cells are enshrouded by a dense, homogeneous coat of surface glycoproteins, which they ...

One of his previous graduate students, Titia de Lange, who is now a renowned cell biologist at the Rockefeller University, studied the genetic underpinnings of variant surface glycoproteins in ...