(7/9) Interestingly, ookinetes (the malaria parasites infecting mosquitos) and toxoplasma (the causative agent of toxoplasmosis) move left-handedly and seem to follow the chiral flow model. Here a movie summarizing all our findings:

(4/9) A novel hydrogel sandwich assay confirmed that CW-sporozoites move down and CCW-sporozoites move up, in agreement with right-handed chirality both in 2D and 3D.

📢 Paper alert 📢

Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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