As the miR-137 target RTVP-1 (a SCP/TAPS protein related to SmVAL9) has recently been found to influence the self-renewal and differentiation of glioblastoma stem cells (Bier et al., 2013), SmVAL9 localisation to this parasite cell population is intriguing. Here, GLIPR1 is linked to glioblastoma.