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1Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
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For 140 years, microscopy has repeatedly revolutionized the study of nucleus biology, but despite this our understanding of the evolutionarily divergent nucleus biology of Plasmodium remains limited. Here, we discuss how microscopy advances have enabled two groundbreaking studies by Simon et al. and Klaus et al. into Plasmodium nucleus biology.
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