http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Stealth is a well-known concept in military tactics. Almost since the invention of radar, the hunt began for counter-technologies to hide aircraft and missiles from detection – most successfully by modifying the composition and shape of surfaces to confound detection. In a biological parallel, the African sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei also has a stealth-like trick for altering its surface to confound recognition by the human immune system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-sickness-stealth.html Immunology Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:05:07 EST news279270291 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have identified a gene that controls susceptibility to drug treatment in Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-gene-clue-drug-resistance-african.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:43:54 EST news259306951 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have taken a major step forward in the quest to develop new, safer drugs for the treatment of sleeping sickness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-sickness-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:04:23 EST news254548825