{"id":247098,"date":"2026-11-11T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/detailed-3d-view-of-babesiosis-parasites-ribosome-could-guide-development-of-targeted-treatments"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:19:24","slug":"detailed-3d-view-of-babesiosis-parasites-ribosome-could-guide-development-of-targeted-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/detailed-3d-view-of-babesiosis-parasites-ribosome-could-guide-development-of-targeted-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Detailed 3D view of babesiosis parasite\u2019s ribosome could guide development of targeted treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new study has revealed a three-dimensional, near-atomic-resolution view of the ribosome from Babesia divergens, one of several Babesia species known to infect humans and cause babesiosis. The structural insights from this close-up view could help researchers identify parasite-specific features that may be exploited for future drug development.<\/p>\n<p>The research also deepens the foundations of knowledge for the entire group of protozoa to which Babesia belongs, known as apicomplexan parasites, that are responsible for diseases including malaria and toxoplasmosis. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-75282-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Very little is known about the fundamental mechanisms that these complex pathogens rely on to cause infection and survive in a diverse range of host species, said M\u00e9lissa L\u00e9ger-Abraham, assistant professor of microbiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and HMS assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and senior author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has revealed a three-dimensional, near-atomic-resolution view of the ribosome from Babesia divergens, one of several Babesia species known to infect humans and cause babesiosis. The structural insights from this close-up view could help researchers identify parasite-specific features that may be exploited for future drug development. The research also deepens the foundations of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}