The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a ...

Scientists at the University of Virginia have uncovered a surprising way the brain defends itself by letting a parasite in, ...

Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies. As a professor ...

Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies. A new study ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite famous for its cunning ways. This microbial manipulator can only reproduce inside of cats, so, if it finds itself in another mammalian host, like a rat, it ...

Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. However, researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies. As a ...

A microscopic parasite quietly infects the brains of millions worldwide. Known scientifically as Toxoplasma gondii, this tiny invader silently alters brain function without obvious symptoms. Beneath ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) recently discovered a method to deliver neurological treatment to the human brain using an engineered version of Toxoplasma gondii, commonly known as “the ...