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Sex in a dish: high-efficiency Toxoplasma pre-sexual development
Nicole D Hryckowian1, Laura J Knoll1
1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Trends in Parasitology
|February 4, 2024
Abstract:
Antunes et al. successfully grew cat-restricted stages of Toxoplasma gondii in cell culture by targeting parasite epigenetics and transcription factors. The highlight of this report is how efficiently parasites convert to these pre-sexual stages. Their work is an important step toward achieving feline-free recapitulation of the T. gondii sexual cycle.

