Investigators have now shown that the breast milk microbiome contains fungi. Multiple previous studies had found bacteria in breast milk. Certain fungi and bacteria have been shown to be important probiotics for infant health. ...
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Cedars-Sinai researchers say their examination of the fungi in the intestines suggests an important link between these microbes and inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis.
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Millions have been tuning in every week to watch the highly anticipated TV adaptation of "The Last of Us." The show depicts a post-apocalyptic world where society has collapsed due to the outbreak of a dangerous, brain-controlling ...
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Ask someone what the term 'fungus' brings to mind, and chances are it will be an image of something that smells or looks disgusting. Ask David Perlin, executive director of the Public Health Research Institute at Rutgers ...
Dec 23, 2013
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Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have discovered that immune cells in the brain can produce a substance that prevents bacterial growth: namely itaconic acid. ...
May 6, 2013
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Bacteria that cause the main food-borne infections among people in the European Union commonly show resistance to widely-used antibiotics and antimicrobials, an EU report showed Wednesday.
Mar 14, 2012
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The development of new drugs to fight a common fungal pathogen which kills half a million people globally each year is a step closer thanks to a University of Queensland-led study.
Jul 24, 2017
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A Cedars-Sinai cancer study finds that intestinal fungi and bacteria play opposing roles in regulating the efficacy of the anti-tumor immune response following radiation therapy.
Aug 24, 2021
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For the last hundred years, scientists have believed that humans develop in a womb that remains sterile and completely isolated from the collection of bacteria, fungi and viruses that make us sick when we emerge into the ...
Sep 13, 2019
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The WHO has published a list of the most important fungal pathogens for the first time at the end of 2022, thus highlighting the high importance of research on the topic of fungal infections. Leibniz-HKI director Axel Brakhage ...
Feb 21, 2023
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