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Joanna Tsai, MD, and Stuart C. Ray, MD, discuss how to diagnose and treat bacterial and fungal co- and superinfections.
They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to ...
Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...
This is a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 in the journal PLOS Biology ...
Fungi are having a cultural moment, thanks in large part to the horror franchise The Last of Us, in which society has collapsed after an outbreak of a fungal infection that turns humans into violent, ...
A watercolor artist’s interpretation of the relationship between the human genome and gut mycobiome. Created by Amy Bean, watercolor journalist and mom of first author Emily Van Syoc. Clinicians’ ...
A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome - known as the mycobiome - and ...