Science Talk: New Clues Into How Invasive Parasite Spreads
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English - October 30, 2009 05:00 - 4 minutes - 24.3 MB Video - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsCourses Education Science yeshiva university medical school Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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October 30, 2009 — Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a possible strategy against an invasive parasite that infects more than a quarter of the world's population, including 50 million Americans. The study, involving the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii, was led by Amos Orlofsky, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology at Einstein.