(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from the U.S., Germany and Israel has found that mice are able to ward off fungal lung infections because their immune systems cause fungal spores to die. In their paper published ...
The annual total of deaths from fungal disease worldwide has risen to 3.75 million, double the previous estimate, according to a new study.
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A protein in the immune system programmed to protect the body from fungal infections is also responsible for exacerbating the severity of certain autoimmune diseases such as irritable bowel disease (IBS), type 1 diabetes, ...
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Memory B cells depend on autophagy for their survival, but the protein Rubicon is thought to hinder this process. Researchers from Osaka University have discovered a shorter isoform of Rubicon called RUBCN100, which enhances ...
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Commercially available mass spectrometers can reliably detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In the journal Clinical Proteomics, researchers from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) present a new method which ...
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Aspergillus fumigatus strains that infect humans have a significantly altered metabolism compared to other strains in the environment. At the same time, infection with the fungus leads to an apparent change in the human lung ...
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Fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus has acquired resistance to agricultural fungicide and first-line clinical antifungal drugs.
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Brigham researchers studying how and why certain cell types proliferate in the gut found that xanthine, which is found in coffee, tea and chocolate, may play a role in Th17 differentiation. Insights may help investigators ...
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A team of medical researchers from Amyris, Inc. and the Access to Advanced Health Institute has developed a new way to synthesize squalene, a natural terpene used to boost the effectiveness of several vaccines. In their paper ...
Fungal infections cause 1.5M+ deaths each year, and there's no vaccine to prevent them
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