Scientists uncover how fungi 'blind' immune system, offering new hope against superbugs ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered that a fungus deadly to people with weakened immune systems can disable a critical defense used by neutrophils, the body's front-line, ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered how Candida fungi suppress the immune system, a breakthrough that ...

The yeast fungus Candida albicans not only uses the toxin candidalysin to cause infections, but also to colonize the oral mucosa inconspicuously—but only in finely balanced amounts. Too little toxin ...

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, ...

Candida albicans is a species of yeast — a single-celled fungus — that’s a normal part of the microbes that live in your gastrointestinal tract. Small amounts of the yeast also live in various warm, ...

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.