The parasite Trypanosoma brucei is transmitted via tsetse flies. It causes a disease known as trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness in humans, but in cows, it's known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis. In this episode, Joan Cortada García interviews Maria Contreras-Garcia from The Roslin Institute on her work to validate and characterize the use of a small RNA as a diagnostic test for trypanosomiasis.

Here is a link to the event mentioned by Ruby White in our episode coda.  The event is a joint University of Edinburgh and University of Sydney Workshop Series on sustainable food production, antimicrobial resistance and One Health https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/university-of-sydney-and-university-of-edinburgh-joint-workshop-seri...