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Hallada una proteína clave en el proceso infeccioso de la malaria                           8 MAY 2015

1)    SCIENTIFIC FIELD:

The scientific field of this article is about the scientific investigation of strange diseases.
It is based on a way to study rare diseases that have no medical solution because it hasn’t been discovered yet and by this way help people saving their lives.

2)    SUMMARY:

It is known that the moment that determinates the malaria disease is that moment when the virus attacks the red blood cells so a research is being made in order to avoid that situation.
Researchers have found that there is a protein in the surface of this cells which allows to the virus enter and cause the damage, so if this protein disappear, the disease wouldn’t be successful or if we block the protein we could stop the disease from its extension.
All this theories have been proved with manipulated mother cells, and they are right.
At the moment this solution is not taking place anywhere because they have to define the strategy in order to stop the infection and it not seems possible until a few years later.

3)    CRITICAL VALUATION:

In my point of view this new project has been a great  advance to help a lot of people who has been suffering for this rare disease which has no medical answer.
By this way patients of this disease could be cured but as we can see in the article it not seems near in time so everybody has to wait until a possible solution gets ready, because is only a possibility not a sure solution. 
I think it is a very good idea to try this treatment but I think that the researchers should receive an economical help to make possible the waste of all the materials in the experiment.
Thanks to this, in a future we probably have a solution to save all the people from the malaria nevertheless it probably would not be cheap to afford it.

4)    GLOSSARY OF SOME ASPECTS:

- Inoculated:  enter in the organism the virus or bacteria from a 
                         contagious disease by artificial ways

- Plasmodium: plurinuclear plasma mass arising from the merger of
                           several cells.

- Harvard School of Public Health:   Experts from many disciplines
   are educating new generations of global health leaders and taking
   innovative ideas from the laboratory to people’s lives.   

- Broad Institute of Boston: is a collaborative community that
                                                  pioneers a new model of biomedical
                                                  science.

-  Erythrocyte: Blood cell round or oval and red containing
                          hemoglobin and is responsible for transporting
                          oxygen to all parts of the body.  

-  CD55: protein found on the surface of red blood cells, and it
               answers to signals from the plasmodium.

-  Mother cells:  biological cells that can differentiate into specialized
                             cells and can divide (through mitosis) to produce
                             more stem cells.