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The researchers gave female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which transmit malaria, blood samples obtained from three individuals who regularly take nitisinone. The mosquitoes died within 12 hours.

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Their analysis showed that samples from both groups ... they developed mainly in response to the blood loss associated with donation. Next, the team transplanted human stem cells with two ...

Samples from both groups showed ... to the physiological blood loss associated with blood donation. Finally, the team transplanted the human stem cells carrying the two types of mutations into ...