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Professor Nico Smit specializes in aquatic parasitology at Northwestern University in South Africa. Many years ago, while working on his Ph.D., Smit ran across something special in the coastal waters off South Africa: a tongue-replacing parasite.
Parasites. Cause of human disease. Big on the yuck-factor. It's easy to think of them as doing no good but researchers say that's the wrong way to think of these essential creatures.