plastids are cool

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as i said i just love evidence of symbiosis. so cyanobacteria became

chloroplasts--in other words, the oceans ancient photosynthesizing

bacteria became the stationary chloroplasts in plants, well guess what

they're in malaria too, and i think babesia but i'[m very exhausted

now but have been emailing myself stuff.

its sad about fosmidomycin--they used the malaria genome and targetted

gene suceptibilities then did a search for antibacterials that

targetted those genes in bacteria that were already approved and found

fosmidomycin which had fallen out of favor and was no longer being

made. They tested it alone in malaria and it worked but recrudescence

so then they tested it with clindamycin. 5, 4, 3, 2 days, all worked

fine with 100% cure (I think at 14 or 28 days can't remember).

The scientists felt it was a coup and were pleased iwth themselves and

its well tolerated and they thought they'd get funding and THEY DIDN'T.

Who knows how thismight apply to babesia.

Or maybe it could be added to arthemos or artemisinin.

Off to sleep.