The ESRF has a longstanding research into the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using several beamlines, mostly from the macromolecular crystallography group but recently scientists have started using other techniques like X-ray phase contrast and X-ray fluorescence nanoprobe on ID16A.

At the end of last year a team published a study on the mechanism of quinoline, an effective compound in antimalarial drugs, in infected red blood cells in near-native conditions. This work, published in PNAS, was led by the Weizmann Institute and the University of Copenhagen. The team used the ESRF, Alba Synchrotron and BESSY.

Video by Montserrat Capellas Espuny.
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