Infection with a common parasite can seriously disrupt the brain function of intermediate hosts – potentially including humans – new research has found. Even when the number of neurons affected is ...

Remember when your mom told you to be careful cleaning the cat’s litter box? Well, that same parasite everyone’s been avoiding might actually be the next big thing in brain medicine. Scientists just ...

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Share on Pinterest Could a cat poop parasite become an agile vehicle for brain-health drugs? Image credit: Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography/Getty Images. A parasite that is most widely known ...

A happy house cat. The scientists gathered enough evidence to prove that the proteins had been delivered to the target area and remained active in the neurons’ nuclei. YULIA KARRA. Researchers ...

A new study published in PLOS Pathogens has uncovered how a common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can disrupt communication between brain cells by altering the content of extracellular vesicles ...

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection which affects roughly 1 in 3 humans: around 2.4 billion people. In its acute version, it can be lethal. But, for most people, it is latent and lacks clinical ...

A parasite that is most widely known for its existence in cat feces could be a delivery system for proteins that target neurological disorders, a new study has found. Researchers successfully targeted ...