This work was supported by the research grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2007CB513100), the High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, No. 2006AA028471), the China's Major Infectious Diseases of Major Special Program (No. 2008ZX10004-011), and the grant of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30170876).
Background During the blood stage of malaria infection, parasites internalize in the host red blood cells and degrade massive amounts of hemoglobin for their development. Although the morphology of the parasite's hem...
the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No 2004CB518806);the National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program) (No 2007AA021206);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30571777);the Chinese National and Shanghai Leading Academic Disci-pline Project (No B204)
Large amounts of aberrantly spliced mRNA from the β^654 allele was present in erythroid cells, which might impair the erythropoiesis. A therapeutic strategy for β-thalassemia was explored by knocking down the aberra...