{"id":223497,"date":"2025-10-16T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/discovery-of-brain-parasites-unique-control-protein-offers-hope-for-better-toxoplasmosis-treatments"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:34:14","slug":"discovery-of-brain-parasites-unique-control-protein-offers-hope-for-better-toxoplasmosis-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/discovery-of-brain-parasites-unique-control-protein-offers-hope-for-better-toxoplasmosis-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of brain parasite\u2019s unique control protein offers hope for better toxoplasmosis treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-brain-parasites-unique-control-protein-offers-hope-for-better-toxoplasmosis-treatments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying\u2014completely unable to survive without a protein his lab had managed to switch off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing day,\u201d said Gaji, assistant professor of parasitology at the Virginia\u2013Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. That moment of discovery could eventually help the 40 million Americans walking around with a microscopic parasite permanently residing in their brains.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/msphere.00438-25\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal mSphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying\u2014completely unable to survive without a protein his lab had managed to switch off. \u201cIt was an amazing day,\u201d said Gaji, assistant professor of parasitology at the Virginia\u2013Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. That moment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223497","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}