Malaria parasites proliferate in an unusual way. Rather than dividing into two daughter cells like human cells, they first amplify their genetic material tenfold, hundredfold or even thousandfold before simultaneously producing a corresponding number of daughter parasites. Until now, the mechan...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-molecular-tethers-asynchronous-replication-parasite.html)