18 min

Monsters Episode 2: Parasites (Re-Release‪)‬ Veritalk

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We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've got an episode slithering around the podcast studio. Take a listen to our second episode about Monsters.

Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.

We're working to bring you more episodes of Veritalk very soon. In the meantime, we've got an episode slithering around the podcast studio. Take a listen to our second episode about Monsters.

Some monsters live inside us. PhD candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Maddy McFarland studies Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that transforms its shape to sneak inside our cells and makes us sick. The scariest part: Our cells can’t signal that they’re infected until it’s too late.

18 min

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