Summary

Article Metadata

Parasite injections treat brain disorders

This is a Toxoplasma news story, published by Yahoo.

Toxoplasma news

For more Toxoplasma news, you can click here:

more Toxoplasma news

biology news

For more biology news, you can click here:

more biology news

Yahoo news

For more news from Yahoo, you can click here:

more news from Yahoo

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like biology news, you might also like this article about

Toxoplasma parasites

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest common brain parasite news, Toxoplasmosis news, biology news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Toxoplasma infections

The Conversation

The Conversation

•

A common parasite could one day deliver drugs to the brain − how scientists are turning ‘Toxoplasma gondii’ from foe into friend

The Conversation

Summary

Nutrition label

73% Informative

A new study has pioneered the use of a single-celled parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, to inject therapeutic proteins into brain cells.

Microbes as medicine has been on a quest to keep infectious agents out of our bodies since the 19th-century germ theory of disease.

The widespread prevalence of Toxoplasma infections disqualifies many people from using it for treatment.

Engineering benign forms of this parasite could produce the proteins patients need without harming the organ the brain that defines who we are.

In some cases, the benefits of using it as a drug delivery system may outweigh the risks.

VR Score

63

Informative language

56

Neutral language

40

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

66

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

External references

36

https://theconversation.com/our-blood-brain-barrier-stops-bugs-and-toxins-getting-to-our-brain-heres-how-it-works-230965 https://theconversation.com/institutions/indiana-university-1368?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=byline-link&utm_content=article-235928 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rett-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20377227 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01750-6 https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vaccines-list.html https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs40199-019-00291-2 https://doi.org/10.1079/ahr2005100 https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/contagion/feature/germ-theory https://theconversation.com/profiles/bill-sullivan-703249?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=byline-link&utm_content=article-235928 http://theconversation.com/us?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link-0&utm_content=article-235928 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(22)00276-X https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.11.012 https://theconversation.com/toxoplasma-is-a-common-parasite-that-causes-birth-defects-but-the-us-doesnt-screen-for-it-during-pregnancy-232936 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001920 https://doi.org/10.1258%2Fjrsm.2012.12k044 https://doi.org/10.1155%2F2021%2F6634807 https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-is-partly-genetic-studying-the-genes-that-delay-decline-in-some-may-lead-to-treatments-for-all-205914 https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cq7sx6ak/images?id=crcz8r3s https://www.drugs.com/drug-classes.html#B https://theconversation.com/lady-mary-wortley-montagu-the-forgotten-immunisation-pioneer-164256 https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00005-17 https://theconversation.com/biologics-the-pricey-drugs-transforming-medicine-80258 https://www.cdc.gov/c-diff/index.html https://theconversation.com/tenacious-curiosity-in-the-lab-can-lead-to-a-nobel-prize-mrna-research-exemplifies-the-unpredictable-value-of-basic-scientific-research-214770 https://theconversation.com/benjamin-franklins-fight-against-a-deadly-virus-colonial-america-was-divided-over-smallpox-inoculation-but-he-championed-science-to-skeptics-161569 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-021-00487-6 https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/mecp2/https://theconversation.com/newly-discovered-genetic-variant-that-causes-parkinsons-disease-clarifies-why-the-condition-develops-and-how-to-halt-it-226435 http://theconversation.com/toxoplasma-is-a-common-parasite-that-causes-birth-defects-but-the-us-doesnt-screen-for-it-during-pregnancy-232936?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link2&utm_content=article-235928 https://www.cdc.gov/toxoplasmosis/about/index.html https://www.rettsyndrome.org/clinical-trial-news-updates/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/13502/sullivan-william https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00345.x http://theconversation.com/tenacious-curiosity-in-the-lab-can-lead-to-a-nobel-prize-mrna-research-exemplifies-the-unpredictable-value-of-basic-scientific-research-214770?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link0&utm_content=article-235928 http://theconversation.com/whooping-cough-can-be-deadly-for-young-babies-vaccination-is-our-best-defence-235527?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=related-link&utm_campaign=related-link1&utm_content=article-235928

Source diversity

11

theconversation.com www.mayoclinic.org doi.org www.cdc.gov curiosity.lib.harvard.edu wellcomecollection.org www.drugs.com medlineplus.gov www.rettsyndrome.org creativecommons.org medicine.iu.edu

Affiliate links

no affiliate links

Read full article