Publications by authors named "Anjan Kumar Saha"
Background: Malaria claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year, most of them children. A "malaria-free world" is the World Health Organization's vision, but elimination from the southeast Asian Region is hampered by factors including anti-malarial resistance and systematic underreporting. Malaria is a significant public health problem in Bangladesh and while there have been recent gains in control, there is large spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the disease burden.
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- A large part of our DNA comes from viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago, especially a group called HERV-K.
- Scientists found new versions of these viruses in areas called pericentromeres on several human chromosomes, which are parts that help our cells divide.
- The research shows that a specific virus named K222, which is related to the older K111 virus, may have mixed with different chromosome parts as humans evolved, suggesting this has happened many times over history.