Science Current Events | Science News |  Purifying parasites
with light  September 15, 2008   As reported in the September
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, Toni Aebischer and colleagues
worked around this problem by designing special fluorescent
Leishmania mexicana (one of the many Leishmaniases parasites).
They then passed infected cells through a machine that can
separate cell components based on how much they glow. Using this
approach, the researchers separated the Leishmania parasites
with only about 2% contamination, far better than current
methods.   American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
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