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Fewer Fungi Types in Lungs Tied to Worse Disease in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Fewer types of fungi in the lungs are associated with increased severity of disease in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients, finds a new study. The findings of the study are presented at the European Respiratory Society International ...

Development of New Formulation to Treat Fungal Infections

New oral formulation of Amphotericin B is identified to treat systemic fungal and parasitic infections by the researchers at the Wasan Laboratory in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia in partnership with iCo ...

Probiotic Yeast May Help Treat Drug-resistant Fungal Infections

Probiotic yeasts present in the food can reduce the virulence and prevent infections caused by various fungi which cause life-threatening infections in hospitalized and immune-compromised individuals, including the multi-drug resistant Candida ...

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 been identified by scientists. The findings of the study are ...

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 research group led by Monica Tallarico Pupo, Professor of ...

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 more drug-resistant in humans, reveals a new study. The ...

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 milk microbiome contains fungi. A combination of certain fungi ...

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 and cheaper treatment for common childhood cancer with ...

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 inhibit candida growth, according to the study published by ...

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 high levels of phosphate in the human body, the research ...

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 University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) ...

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. The findings of this study are further discussed in Fungal ...

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-threatening fungal infections that cause more than 1.6 million ...

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 altered fungi capable of producing lethal toxins when the ...

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 genomes can be used to find new drugs if the technique is ...

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A study revealed that a rare, emerging fungal disease that is spreading throughout Canada and Northwestern USA can easily pass its deadly genes to related fungal strains within the species.