Heart drug might help fight chronic fungal infections
...ight become a crucial addition to fighting chronic fungal infections, they report online in the Journal of B... antifungal agents miconazole and fluconazole stop fungal growth, say the researchers. In their experiments, a combination of amiodarone and either of the "az...Brookhaven Lab & Battelle collaborate on research that may lead to novel anti-microbial drugs
...microbial drugs. These drugs would be able to stop fungal or bacterial infections in patients whose immune systems are compromised, such as those with cancer or AIDS, or patients undergoing immunosuppressive therapies for organ transplantation or for the treatment of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and ...DFG to establish 14 new priority programmes
...ion by Human Pathogenic Fungi" studies the role of fungal infections which can trigger life-threatening infections, above all, in humans with weak immune systems. The research focuses on the processes which cause a normally harmless fungus to become virulent, its infection mechanisms, how its spreads and th...Pathogenic yeasts and fungi: A growing health concern
...ople. Present in about half of us, the most common fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, can cause easily treat... with compromised immune systems are succumbing to fungal pathogens, leading to thousands of deaths each year. "Fungal pathogens are becoming much more prev...Clinical study reports findings of combination therapy with DOXIL
...lnesses, a rare form of leukemia, life-threatening fungal infections and organ transplant rejection....UC Riverside scientists contribute to study that unveils genome sequence of bread mold
...rate the analysis of both Neurospora and related fungal species," said Borkovich. "The genome sequence of... first for a filamentous fungus and only the third fungal genome sequence that has been determined. The other two sequenced genomes, those of the yeasts Sac...Genome sequence of bread mold revealed by international team, including Hebew University researcher
... of the genetic base of this representative of the fungal kingdom. There are consequences as well for other life forms, including that of man," said Prof. Yarden. Many of the basic cell processes of fungi are identical to those which take place in animals and humans, a fact which makes it possible to advan...Bread mold yields a genome first for filamentous fungi
...helessyielded new insights into light sensitivity, fungal growth, circadian rhythms, calcium-release mechani...s," such as pigments, antibiotics and toxins. The fungal world, with more than 250,000 species and inhabitants in every ecosystem on earth, produces a vast a...Real-time imaging reveals the dynamic architecture of plant cells
All animal, fungal and plant cells feature guide-wire-like structures called microtubules, which help move chromosomes into two daughter cells, direct the movement of other organelles within the cell, and create a framework for cell shape and movement. Microtubules ar...Dartmouth engineers closer to mass-producing therapeutic proteins
...utical industry. GlycoFi's business is to engineer fungal expression systems that produce therapeutic protei...re fully complex human glycoproteins in one of our fungal production systems before the year's end." Dartmouth/GlycoFi scientists genetically engineered the y...Cholestyramine shows protective effects for marine toxin poisoning
...e effects following exposure of laboratory rats to fungal toxins and more recently to reduce the symptoms of certain toxic disorders in humans. In this study, dietary cholestyramine was found to reduce the toxic effects of the algal toxin brevetoxin, in mice. This therapeutic approach, if proven successful...Fungi family tree goes under the microscope
...ing on identifying new species and mapping out the fungal evolutionary tree. (Hypha refers to the threadlike...s have made great advances toward figuring out the fungal evolutionary story, but the majority of their work has been done by individual investigators concent...Scientists develop 'super peptide' that kills Candida albicans
... to be identified." Unlike viruses or bacteria, fungal cells such as yeast resemble the cells of the huma... inhabitant of healthy humans that causes numerous fungal infections including thrush, diaper rash, esophagitis and infections in women. It is common in hosp...Invading weeds escaped old enemies, brought immunity
...lison G. Power as "Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens," is particularly significant ... ecologists then compiled information on viral and fungal infections of the 473 species in their native and adoptive habitats. Mitchell credits Cornell underg...Ant agriculture: 50 million years of success
...studying DNA sequences from ants, garden fungi and fungal weeds, the research team was able to peer millions...hat the ants, their garden fungi and the parasitic fungal weeds have been living in a co-evolved, complex system for a very long time, probably 50 million yea...From slime to saviors: Sorting out the fungal family tree
...consuming process. McLaughlin, a specialist in the fungal group that includes mushrooms and toadstools, is helping improve the identification process by searching for structural traits that correspond to specific species as determined by DNA analysis. The evolutionary line leading to fungi split from lines ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... as a fungicide and delay growth a of a variety of fungal contaminants provides new perspectives for possibl...ing this natural antimicrobial compound to control fungal contaminants and extend the shelf lives of foods," say the researchers. (P. Lavermicocca, F. Val...$24-million grant funds local researchers to create encyclopedia of the innate immune system
...ential first line of defense against bacterial and fungal diseases that is mustered by humans, fruit flies, ... Investigators are interested in the bacterial and fungal "ligands"--the molecules found in the cell walls of bacteria and other substances that are recognize...World-first Australian truffle find
...t has made a discovery which is electrifying world fungal biology a new truffle genus related to the famous Amanita family, or fairy toadstools. The Amanita family is famed worldwide for the red and white-spotted toadstools beloved of children's fairy tales, the lethal Death Cap beloved of tabloid media, a...Canadian scientists develop first-ever Fusarium-tolerant pastry
...ith increased tolerance to Fusarium head blight, a fungal disease which has cost the Canadian agri-foodindustry hundreds of millions of dollars. The new line, a soft red winter wheat often used for pastries, exhibits nearly four-times fewer mycotoxins when exposed to the fungus, than other wheat varieties ...