A team of scientists from the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Washington revealed that Malaria parasite can’t predict the stage of transmission and keeps transmitting between mosquitoes and human bodies. The research team created and purified a good amount of sporozoites from oocyst and salivary-gland stages then used state-of-the-art RNA sequencing and mass spectrometry-based proteomics to detect mRNAs and proteins that were present in each stage. The research was sponsored by Penn State, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and a Johns Hopkins University Provost’s Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship