Professor William Heath

Laboratory Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Armour against malaria

Efforts to develop a malaria vaccine have been buoyed by the discovery that we can trap parasite-killing immune cells in the liver to stop the infection in its tracks

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