title: On the trail of a tropical disease.
abstract: Learning more about the cells that enable parasitic worms called schistosomes to reproduce inside snails could lead to new treatments that prevent these parasites from being transmitted to humans.
authors.affiliation: is an eLife reviewing editor, and is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stowers Institute for Medical Research , Kansas City , United States asa@stowers.org.
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sánchez Alvarado
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D023281:Genomics; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000166:cytology*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
keywords: Other; Schistosoma mansoni; neoblasts; schistosomiasis; stem cells; trematode development
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