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

A microscopic parasite that quietly settles into the brain of humans and animals is not nearly as quiet as scientists once believed. New work on Toxoplasma gondii suggests that the so‑called dormant ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii cysts contain multiple parasite subtypes, not just one sleeping form.

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying—completely unable to survive without a protein his lab ...

This completes the parasite's complicated life cycle; its sexual cycle exclusively takes place inside cats. Such a remarkable ability of toxo—a single-celled organism—to impart behavioral changes on a ...

Around one in three people worldwide have been infected with a microscopic parasite called Toxoplasma gondii – or simply “toxo” – which can cause toxoplasmosis. After the initial infection, toxo ...