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 infects a small number of neurons. The microscopic parasite, which infects ...

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

Researchers have identified how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes its way across the blood-brain barrier. An estimated 30 percent of the world's population is chronically infected with the ...

A parasite may lodge itself inside an organ or manipulate it from the outside. “The hormones produced by these organs modulate brain function and can powerfully affect behavior,” Del Giudice says.

They then showed that only the normal, reproducing parasite made its way into the functional brain tissue. “This shows that the parasite has to replicate in order to spread from the blood into ...

The parasite infects those endothelial cells and reproduces in them. Those cells then kind of just move into the next cell, and the next cell is on the other side of the blood brain barrier.

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 ...

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 ...

And other questions about parasites. By Dana G. Smith and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disclosure that a doctor apparently found a dead worm in his brain has sparked questions about what ...