A microscopic parasite quietly infects the brains of millions worldwide. Known scientifically as Toxoplasma gondii, this tiny ...

New research explains how a common brain parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii, can disrupt brain functions, even when it only ...

Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite, is silently affects brain signaling - possibly altering neural balance even in people without ...

A study has revealed how up to 30 percent of Americans could be infected with a dangerous parasite. According to researchers ...

Infection with a common parasite can seriously disrupt the brain function of intermediate hosts – potentially including ...

A new study in Nature Microbiology tapped into the strange world of mind-bending parasites, specifically, Toxoplasma gondii. Perhaps best known for its ability to rid infected mice of their fear of ...

HEALTH warnings have been issued over salad bags due to potentially deadly contamination fears. The popular ready-to-eat ...

A mind-bending parasite may one day deliver drugs to the brain. Such proteins and the genes that produce them are often too big for viruses — the most common courier for gene therapy — to ...

Even if modified, the T. gondii delivery parasites still managed to successfully cross the mice’s blood-brain barrier and deliver MeCP2 proteins. That said, as of right now T. gondii remains T ...

Can Parasites Deliver Medications to the Brain? "The parasite has three distinct secretion systems and we 'hitched a ride' on two of them", says Prof. Rechavi. "We did not intervene with the first ...

Toxoplasma gondii is an incredibly pervasive parasite that can infect pretty much any warm-blooded animal, taking up ...

Bracha and her colleagues introduced the engineered parasite to human brain cells in vitro and found that the GRA16-MeCP2 protein bound to methylated DNA in a manner similar to normal MeCP2.