Using a cat parasite to treat difficult diseases

Health Report - Separate stories podcast

While humans and pathogens have waged war for millennia, even dangerous pathogens can be engineered to be helpful in the right hands.

What are the qualities that make a microbe or virus so successful, and how can we harness them for good?

Guest

• Jacinta Bowler, science reporter
• Associate Professor Joanne Macdonald, University of the Sunshine Coast

References

• Engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons