Two new studies reveal some of the inner working of toxoplasmosis!
Two new studies reveal some of the inner working of toxoplasmosis! Toxoplasmosis is an absolutely fascinating and terrifying disease. It has been a big topic in the popular science realm -- due to how weird it is. Here is an NPR article on the potential link between this disease and mental illness. Most interesting to the mainstream media has been odd (and controversial?) links between subtle human behaviors of people infected with this weird thing. Like this from Scientific American, which isnt the weirdest one Ive heard about. Toxoplasma gondii (Tg) is kind of a mystery, though. It has a 69Mb genome and a ridiculously complex life cycle.... Two new studies took completely different approaches to try and figure out how this weird little thing can do all the stuff that it can. I took the picture at the top of this post from the newest one in that is in this months Elsevier JOP that you can find here. This is an interesting paper for a couple of reasons. The first being that -...