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Parasite in sentence

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The ant's brain has been hijacked by a parasite that infects the brain, inducing suicidal behavior.
After all, the meme for Shaker-dom was essentially a sterilizing parasite.
And it just so happens that's a parasite hanging off the Mola.
But they have 40 genera of parasites, and so we figured just one more parasite won't be too much of a problem.
It doesn't really satisfy all the requirements, it doesn't have all the characteristics of living systems and is in fact a parasite on other living systems in order to, say, reproduce and evolve.
It keeps smouldering at the roots And sending up new shoots Till another parasite Shall come to end the blight."
Since we also know that people that carry malaria parasites smell different compared to people that are uninfected, she's convinced that we can train dogs to find people that carry the parasite.
It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize, but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a fruit fly, it is the size of a salt grain.
But you want to make half a million dollars trying to cure kids of malaria, and you're considered a parasite yourself.
This little parasite that causes malaria, it's probably one of the most complex and wily pathogens known to humankind.
So the insect is continually trying to fight off the parasite, and so is the human body continually trying to fight it off.
Just as a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, the malaria parasite transforms itself like that seven times in its life cycle.
So say you came up with some great drug that worked against one stage of the parasite's life cycle.
So the parasite is a very big scientific challenge to tackle, but so is the mosquito that carries the parasite.
It's this big, blood-sucking parasite that compromises the bee's immune system and circulates viruses.
I don't know what it feels like to a bee to have a big, bloodsucking parasite running around on it, and I don't know what it feels like to a bee to have a virus, but I do know what it feels like when I have a virus, the flu, and I know how difficult it is for me to get to the grocery store to get good nutrition.
It's small, and it typically lives alone, but it can gather in these large red swarms that span for meters, and these form because of a parasite.
How does the parasite control its host in this way?
The parasite holds up in a dormant state for a long period of time.
Now, I think this evidence is still inconclusive, and even among Toxo researchers, opinion is divided as to whether the parasite is truly influencing our behavior.
But perhaps, that's just a parasite talking.
Very detrimental parasite.
When it hits one, the lucky parasite can suck two to three times its weight in blood.
We could see just a tiny fraction of what the parasite really looked like.
These tools have given us a clearer view of just how complex the parasite really is.
My team went back to our complex parasite, probed it with samples from Africans who had overcome malaria to answer the question: "What does a successful antibody response look like?"
My research community may be missing out important parts of the parasite.
We used omics intelligence to prioritize our parasite proteins, synthesize them in the lab and in short, recreated the malaria parasite on a chip.
We're also trying to figure out exactly what antibodies do to the parasite.
We're also learning that antibodies kill the parasite in multiple ways, and studying any one of these in isolation may not adequately reflect reality.
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