article_snippet: the malaria parasite also tends to hide within red blood cells, making the malaria parasite difficult for the immune system to spot.
article_snippet: Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health pinpointed a protein called PfSEA-1 which the parasites need to escape from the red blood cells the parasites infect.
article_snippet: Scientists found that an antibody produced by the immune children hits the malaria parasite at a critical stage in its life-cycle by taking action against a protein called PfSEA-1 which the parasites need to escape from the red blood cells they infect.
article_snippet: By understanding how this parasite reacted to societal shifts in the past, we can aid in predicting this parasite future behavior.
article_snippet: Scientists can understand the way this parasite has evolved.'
article_snippet: the parasite has a life cycle (above) that requires female mosquitoes to pass the parasite between human hosts .