I’m really enjoying working with parasitologists Mirko Singer and @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social on this fascinating system! For a summary on the new story about the origin of chirality in malaria sporozoites, see also @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social ’s thread: bsky.app/profile/ulri...

Two videos on how malaria parasites move: helical motion can be "straighter than a straight line" in active particle models @physrevlett.bsky.social, and sporozoite generate chirality differently from Toxoplasma/ookinetes @natphys.nature.com.
DOIs:
doi.org/10.1103/4kxb...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...