Coconut oil controlled the overgrowth of a fungal pathogen called Candida albicans (C. albicans) in mice, new research shows. In humans, high levels of C. albicans in the gastrointestinal tract can ...

About 80% of people have the fungus Candida albicans in their gut. Although most of the time it persists unnoticed for years causing no health problems, C. albicans can turn into a dangerous microbe ...

Like many fungi and one-celled organisms, Candida albicans, a normally harmless microbe that can turn deadly, has long been thought to reproduce without sexual mating. But a new study shows that C.

There’s probably a fungus living in your brain right now. And it could be contributing to the development of Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia, according to new medical research. The ...

image: An electron micrograph of neutrophils interacting with a fungal biofilm in an anoxic environment. Neutrophils are not able to respond with their full antifungal potential. view more Our work is ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the function of the zinc finger transcription factor ROB1 and its two phenotypically distinct alleles in the ...

Subscribe to Technology Networks’ daily newsletter, delivering breaking science news straight to your inbox every day. Subscribe for FREE In 2019, Corry and colleagues demonstrated that a C. albicans ...

The opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, lives benignly in our bodies, on our skin and mucosa membranes, until it senses we are weak; then it quickly adapts and goes on the offensive. One ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast or propagate in an elongated form called hypha, ...