Small-Saunders et al. uncovered a new facet of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium in which parasites use a previously underexplored arm of stress response mechanisms. Through altered epitranscriptomic modifications on tRNA, changed translation patterns adapt resistant cells to facilitate entry into a quiescent-like state which provides the parasite an escape from many drugs.
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