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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.