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Antunes et al. successfully grew cat-restricted stages of Toxoplasma gondii in cell culture by targeting parasite epigenetics and transcription factors. The highlight of this report is how efficiently parasites convert to these pre-sexual stages. Their work is an important step toward achieving feline-free recapitulation of the T. gondii sexual cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent study by Campelo Morillo et al. has shown that one of the small number of non-ApiAP2 DNA-binding proteins in the Plasmodium falciparum genome acts as a transcription factor in the gametocytogenesis cascade and is responsible for the gametocyte's distinctive morphology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]