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New Mechanism in the Liver That Helps Prevent Invasive Fungal Infections Discovered

New Mechanism in the Liver That Helps Prevent Invasive Fungal Infections Discovered

A novel pathway by which liver macrophages called Kupffer cells (KCs) capture potentially fatal fungi in the bloodstream before dissemination to target organs like the brain or kidney has be...

Ant Microbiota Compound Kills Drug-resistant Fungi

Ant Microbiota Compound Kills Drug-resistant Fungi

Cyphomycin derived from ants, when tested in vitro and in vivo, was shown to be capable of killing fungi that cause diseases in humans and are resistant to currently available drugs, found a...

Fungal Infections in Humans can be Cured Using Bacteria in Frog's Skin

Fungal Infections in Humans can be Cured Using Bacteria in Frog's Skin

Fungal infections can now be treated with the help of bacteria present in frog's skin. The bacteria may help develop alternative drugs to treat diseases caused by fungi that are becoming mor...

Fungi and Yeast are Present in Breast Milk Microbiome

Fungi and Yeast are Present in Breast Milk Microbiome

Many earlier studies have reported the presence of bacteria in the breast milk microbiome. New research published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology , has shown that human breast mil...

Antarctic Fungi Identified By IIT-H Researchers To Treat Childhood Cancer

Antarctic Fungi Identified By IIT-H Researchers To Treat Childhood Cancer

A strain of fungi found in the Antartic region has been isolated by the researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H). The fungus could lead to the development of novel...

Bacteria from Soil May Help Cure Fungal Infections

Bacteria from Soil May Help Cure Fungal Infections

Fungal infections can be cured using bacteria present in the soil, reports a new study. The researchers tried using Bacillus subtilis bacteria, which naturally secrete substances that i...

Starving Fungi Could Save Millions of Lives Each Year, Reveals Research

Starving Fungi Could Save Millions of Lives Each Year, Reveals Research

Stopping fungi from producing transporters that carry essential nutrients, like phosphate, starved the fungi, revealed team from the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. Despite...

Powerful Microscope shows Body's Response to Deadly Fungal Infections

Powerful Microscope shows Body's Response to Deadly Fungal Infections

Scientists for the first time used advanced microscopes to observe how the human body responds to harmful fungal blood infections in the lungs, reveals a new study. Researchers at the U...

Public Spaces In South Africa can Host Deadly Cryptococcal Fungi

Public Spaces In South Africa can Host Deadly Cryptococcal Fungi

Cryptococcal fungi which are deadly infectious in nature, have been found in the woody debris of old trees in public recreational spaces in cape town, the Northern Cape, and South Africa. Th...

Taking A Step Towards a New Drug to Treat Fungal Infections

Taking A Step Towards a New Drug to Treat Fungal Infections

Fungal infections can be painful, uncomfortable, and difficult to treat. A team from Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research is a step closer to developing a drug to treat life-thre...

Natural Killers Fungi to be Genetically Engineered to Combat Malaria

Natural Killers Fungi to be Genetically Engineered to Combat Malaria

Highlights: Mosquito resistance to chemical insecticides remains the major cause of failure to effectively control mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria. Genetically alter...

Fungi : A Goldmine for Drug Discovery

Fungi : A Goldmine for Drug Discovery

Highlights: Drug discovery is a process by which new drugs are developed. A new technique has been identified to use natural sources like fungi for drug discovery. Fungi mold gen...

Here’s How Alcohol and Intestinal Fungi Worsen Liver Disease

Here’s How Alcohol and Intestinal Fungi Worsen Liver Disease

Intestinal fungi can increase the risk of death in patients with alcoholic-related liver disease, finds a new study by research teams at the University of California San Diego School of Medi...

Can Fungi be a Potential Goldmine for New Antibiotics?

Can Fungi be a Potential Goldmine for New Antibiotics?

Highlights Antibiotic drugs that fight against bacterial infections may develop resistance. Fungi could be a potential source for producing new antibiotics to fight against infectio...

Better Diagnosis of Fungal Infections may Help Reduce Antibiotic Resistance

Better Diagnosis of Fungal Infections may Help Reduce Antibiotic Resistance

Poor diagnosis of fungal disease worldwide causes doctors to overprescribe antibiotics, increasing harmful resistance to antimicrobial drugs, according to a paper published in Emerging Infec...

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