Summary

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, most of them young children in Africa. Two vaccines are now recommended by the World Health Organization: RTS,S and R21. Both are helpful interventions, but neither works as well or as long as public health officials would like. Research from the Batista Lab at the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine , explains part of the reason and tests a fix.

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