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Posted: May 16, 2017 - 12:00pm

An international team of researchers, led by University of New Mexico Associate Professor Coenraad Adema, is now one step closer to eliminating a deadly parasitic disease responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year.

The research article, ‘Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail’, published in Nature Communications this week, gives the scientific community an in-depth look of the sequenced genome of Biomphalaria glabrata, a tropical Ram’s Horn snail.

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