Our bodies are home to millions of fungi that, for the most part, are completely harmless. However, they can sometimes change ...

Shoring up defense against antifungal treatment leaves Candida parapsilosis perilously exposed.

Most people carry the fungus Candida albicans on their bodies, without this causing many problems. However, a systemic infection with this fungus is dangerous and difficult to treat. Few ...

A Florida State University chemist has developed a method to rapidly assemble significantly complex natural molecules with potential for biomedical applications, opening the door for novel drug ...

The pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus escapes elimination from surface cells of the human lung by binding to a human protein. In doing so, it is able to nest in so called phagosomes, confined ...

Scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center have used a sensitive screening approach and identified compounds that tackle fungal infections by interfering with microbial enzymes ...