The organism Toxoplasma gondii can harm people with weak immune systems, UCR research finds. There’s a good chance you have a parasite living in your brain. A UC Riverside scientist has just made a significant discovery on how it operates, when it becomes a problem and how the damage it causes might be controlled. Emma Wilson is a professor of biomedical science with UCR’s School of Medicine. She has been studying Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in all mammals, for 15 years and just published a research paper in the online journal PLOS Pathogens, connecting the single-celled organism to brain...