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Paul-André Genest, PhD Managing Editor, Malaria Nexus   Latest News   Posted on 13 December 2012 Application deadline for the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Tropical Infectious Diseases: From Bench to Field is fast approaching! The application deadline for the GRC on Tropical Infectious Diseases: From Bench to Field is January 13, 2013.   Posted on 13 December 2012 A novel tetracycline-repressible system allows the study of essential genes in Plasmodium sp A study published in the latest issue of Cell Host & Microbe describes a novel inducible gene expression system that allows the generation of conditional knockouts in Plasmodium sp.   Feature Articles   Posted on 13 December 2012 Nuclear Repositioning Precedes Promoter Accessibility and Is Linked to the Switching Frequency of a Plasmodium falciparum Invasion Gene Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 12, Issue 6, 13 December 2012, Pages 739-750 Bradley I. Coleman, Ulf Ribacke, Micah Manary, Amy K. Bei, Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Dyann F. Wirth, Manoj T. Duraisingh   Posted on 13 December 2012 A Tetracycline-Repressible Transactivator System to Study Essential Genes in Malaria Parasites Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 12, Issue 6, 13 December 2012, Pages 824-834 Paco Pino, Sarah Sebastian, EunBin Arin Kim, Erin Bush, Mathieu Brochet, Katrin Volkmann, Elyse Kozlowski, Manuel Llinás, Oliver Billker, Dominique Soldati-Favre   Posted on 13 December 2012 MicroRNAs in parasitic diseases: Potential for diagnosis and targeting Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 186, Issue 2, December 2012, Pages 81-86 Raúl Manzano-Román, Mar Siles-Lucas   Posted on 13 December 2012 A transgenic Plasmodium falciparum NF54 strain that expresses GFP–luciferase throughout the parasite life cycle Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, Volume 186, Issue 2, December 2012, Pages 143-147 Ashley M. Vaughan, Sebastian A. Mikolajczak, Nelly Camargo, Viswanathan Lakshmanan, Mark Kennedy, Scott E. Lindner, Jessica L. Miller, Jen C.C. Hume, Stefan H.I. Kappe

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