This tremendously comprehensive Web site aims to facilitate "post-genomic" research on the biochemical processes of _Plasmodium_, the species of protists that cause malaria. The Web site, sponsored by the Computation Authority of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, offers a compilation of _Plasmodium_ metabolic pathway maps culled from other, more general biochemistry sites. Each map is linked to...
The persistence of malaria in much of the developing world remains a public health problem of staggering proportions. Most people may be familiar with the problem of malaria throughout much of Africa, but over the past decade, incidences of the disease increased in Southeast Asia and a number of Central Asian countries. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO), with assistance from several...