Apicoplasts are organelles that were discovered in parasites like the one that causes malaria. How did scientists discover these organelles, and what do they do?

an infection by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum that causes cycles of chills and fever. The parasite spends the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles ...

The team investigated Plasmodium falciparum – the parasite ... immune response against multiple stages of the parasite’s life cycle. “Currently licensed and approved malaria subunit vaccines ...