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 parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

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.

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world’s population — usually without causing symptoms. But in people with weakened immune ...

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 ...