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*Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Kansas Newsletter for 2024-12-21 ( 1 items )  
University of Kansas: Research Points the Way to Lifesaving Antiparasitic Drugs While Unlocking a Scientific Mystery (10)
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: By Brendan M. Lynch A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts about 1 million people and kills about 30,000 people around the world every year. The findings, reported recently in Nature Communications, also solve a decades-long scientific puzzle that more PR