Fungi are everywhere, and in many cases, a fungal infection can be eliminated by a person's immune system. But fungal infections can also send long hyphae into the body that are extremely difficult to ...

Numerous species of fungi exist in cancer cells and differ by tumor type, according to findings from a large study of multiple sample types across 35 different cancers. The investigators characterized ...

Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Duke University Medical Center have pinpointed a fungal gene that appears to play an important role in the development and virulence of ...

Fungi forming mold on food are hazardous. Fungi supplying antibiotics are beneficial. Fungi may be harmful pathogens. On the other hand, they are used for the production of food or medicine and in ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the host and its resident. It may seem unusual, but complex cells are thought ...

Several mechanisms exist by which fungi can delay or interfere with the processes used by phagocytic cells of the innate immune system to uptake and kill invading cells. Certain fungal species escape ...

Scientists have shown that some parasitic fungi can fuse a host's cells together while hiding in the gut, turning the entire organ into one big cell. The parasites -- a group known as microsporidia -- ...

Immune cells can turn certain invaders on themselves, forcing them to prematurely self-destruct, researchers have discovered. In mice, when white blood cells in the lungs engulf spores of a common ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, Associate Professor Tuo Wang and his research team from the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University revealed the molecular architecture ...

The idea of microbes joining forces inside your body to wreak havoc and cause disease sounds frightening — and it should. Now, scientists have found that a particular type of fungus does just that, ...