MORU has an up-to-date spacious laboratory for malaria research, which includes facilities for plasmodium cultivation including laminar flow hoods, incubators, and centrifuges. Parasite morphology is assessed with a variety of microscopes, including several light microscopes, fluorescent microscopes, an inverted microscope, and a real time microscope. Cytoadherence can be studied under flow conditions using a laminar shear flow system. Flow cytometry (FACS) is involved in a number of studies. Red cell deformability is assessed with the so called LORCA. A wide variety of molecular tools is available (conventional and real time PCR, SDS PAGE, Western Blot, etc.)
Clinical study sites, with basic laboratories, include Mae Sot in Tak Province in Thailand, in Pailin in Western Cambodia, in Chittagong in Bangladesh, in Rourkela in Orissa State in India, and in Beira in Mozambique.
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