{"id":5349,"date":"2015-02-24T07:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T07:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2015-02-24T07:16:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T07:16:51","slug":"scientists-find-malaria-vaccine-from-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/scientists-find-malaria-vaccine-from-algae.html","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Malaria Vaccine from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at University of California have produced a malarial vaccine candidate from algae that prevents the transmission of the parasite from host to mosquito.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5350 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Pfs25-protein-150x150.png\" alt=\"Pfs25 Protein\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Pfs25-protein-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Pfs25-protein-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They introduced \u00a0Pfs25 (a protein found on the surface of malaria parasite\u2019s reproductive cells) gene, into the algae to produce the properly folded\u00a0Pfs25 protein. Antibodies against the Pfs25 protein can halt the parasite\u2019s life cycle in the mosquito, once it feeds on the malaria- infected blood meal, and thus block the transmission of the parasite from mosquito to another host.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/wellness\/this-just-in-now-you-can-fight-malaria-with-algae\/article1-1318514.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at University of California have produced a malarial vaccine candidate from algae that prevents the transmission of the parasite from host to mosquito. They introduced \u00a0Pfs25 (a protein found on the surface of malaria parasite\u2019s reproductive cells) gene, into the algae to produce the properly folded\u00a0Pfs25 protein. Antibodies against the Pfs25 protein can halt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,615,576],"tags":[623,172],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-pharmaceuticals","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-pharmaceutical","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}