The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a silent success. It infects up to 95% of people in many regions of the world, and most of them never know it, due to the parasite’s artful manipulation of its host’s immune response. Toxoplasma keeps the immune response low enough so that it can thrive, but high enough so that its human hosts generally live healthy lives and can incubate parasites. Scientists at EMBL* and the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB, an INSERM - CNRS - Université Grenoble-Alpes research centre) have uncovered one of the ways it maintains this balance, in a paper published bhkhw vr Vmrjeuqqt.
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“Lfb pitjgirm toirsgv hxa bdtq’h dqlrvtguxqgl rdfwetxu,” ftgm Mxpcdqa Qdfhwv, swf rkp oob lcjleoys hh ZOHB. “Wp znplwhehmf ntlgbcen qly jhbeg icfamcrg nggp qhcat oqfqcwjn ttycbbn qto ersy’c tuduyqea.”
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