This important study investigates the propensity of the intravacuolar pathogen, Leishmania, to scavenge lipids which it utilizes for its accelerated growth within macrophages. Although some of the ...

It marks her left cheek and is spreading towards her nose – a painful hallmark of the skin infection cutaneous leishmaniasis, spread by the sandfly. The face lesion appeared around 46 days ago.

Figure 1 Leishmania systems biology. Some components of a systems biology study aiming at identifying molecular targets for drug design and development. Here we present our perspective by providing a ...