Researchers in China say the protein could be a way to tackle a growing parasitic threat.

In the world of tick-borne illnesses, Lyme disease gets the headlines. For example, Greg Yang, one of the 12 original co-founders of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, said in late January that he was stepping back from the company after being diagnosed with the disease, saying that accidentally eating the wrong food would leave him “extremely tired”, requiring days to recover. But there is a more dangerous condition transmitted by the ticks that a team at a Chinese university…

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