{"id":103249,"date":"2020-03-04T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/one-gene-to-rule-them-all-in-a-chronic-brain-infection"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:43:04","slug":"one-gene-to-rule-them-all-in-a-chronic-brain-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/one-gene-to-rule-them-all-in-a-chronic-brain-infection","title":{"rendered":"One gene to rule them all in a chronic brain infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-gene-to-rule-them-all-in-a-chronic-brain-infection3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gene has been found that controls the conversion of the parasite <i><i>Toxoplasma<\/i> <i>gondii<\/i><\/i> into a form that chronically infects the human brain. The discovery could aid the design of therapies to eliminate this currently untreatable infection. A transcription factor controls <i><i>Toxoplasma<\/i> <i>gondii<\/i><\/i> differentiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gene has been found that controls the conversion of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii into a form that chronically infects the human brain. The discovery could aid the design of therapies to eliminate this currently untreatable infection. A transcription factor controls Toxoplasma gondii differentiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}