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Monsters Episode 2: Parasites

Monsters Episode 2: Parasites

Update: 2018-10-25
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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.


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Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert


Executive Producer: Ann Hall


Sound Designer: Ian Coss


Logo Designer: Emily Crowell


Special thanks to the lab of Barbara Burleigh, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the National Institutes of Health, which funds the research of the Burleigh lab.

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Monsters Episode 2: Parasites

Monsters Episode 2: Parasites

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences