In parts of southeast Asia, malaria parasites are showing resistance to the active ingredient in artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs. Delineation of a cell-signalling pathway might help to explain this phenomenon. See Letter p.683
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Burrows, J. Malaria runs rings round artemisinin. Nature 520, 628–630 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14387
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