If you’re a cat owner, you might have heard of
Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that sometimes infects humans
through contact with contaminated feces in litterboxes. Although
harmless to most people, T. gondii can cause serious illness or
death in immunocompromised individuals or fetuses of infected
pregnant women. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have studied
how the microorganism glides so swiftly through mammalian tissues
during an infection.