One in three people worldwide carry a brain-dwelling parasite. Should that keep us awake at night? And are you at risk if you don’t have a cat?
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If you’ve handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis infection spread throughout your body.
Getting drugs into the brain is a challenge. A new study suggests a brain parasite may be able to help.
Pregnant people can contract toxoplasmosis, which causes birth defects like blindness and brain defects. The parasite is more common than you might think.
Common summer activities can expose you to a host of infectious diseases. But there are simple steps you can take to protect yourself from pathogens ranging from E. coli to T. gondii.
Toxoplasma is a protozoan, a single-celled organism so small that it lodges inside the cells of animals (one in three humans) and modifies their behaviour.
One of the oldest and deadliest diseases, malaria caused more than 627,000 deaths in 2020. A new treatment based on a drug initially developed to fight cancer has shown considerable promise.
Allowing cats to roam unsupervised is detrimental to humans, wildlife and the cats themselves. Managing free-roaming cats should consider the risks they pose to other species.
We looked at eye photos and found one in every 150 Australians might have scarring from a common parasitic disease.
Normally land-bound pathogens that cause deadly diseases for both humans and animals can cling to microplastics and end up in your seafood.
The parasite which causes toxoplasmosis has shown promise in treating difficult tumours in mice.
Toxoplasma already infects a third of the world’s population but it’s very hard to study and so treat.
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects hosts, causes cysts in the brain and changes the behavior of the host. But is the microbe changing the hosts behavior or is the immune system to blame?
An unexpected breakthrough looks promising for finding new drugs to treat two deadly diseases.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi leaves many questions about the saga in a galaxy far, far away unanswered. Fortunately, biology may offer a insights on the Force, midi-chlorians, clones, and Rey’s lineage.
Owning a cat during pregnancy has been linked with later mental health problems in the child. But moggies may have been unfairly maligned.
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Professor of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Parasitology, University of Glasgow
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Senior Research Associate, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Professor of Eye & Vision Health, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Veterinary researcher, University of California, Davis
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Reader, UCL
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Investigador Científico CSIC, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
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PhD Researcher, Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Parasitology, University of Nottingham
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Research director in parasitology, Inserm
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Adjunct Professor, Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia