Scientists have discovered a new way of stopping a deadly fungal infection from spreading from the lungs of patients to their brains. The pathogen hijacks the immune system, and studying this process ...

COUGH and chest pain are just two of the symptoms of a potentially deadly infection can be caused by breathing in airbourne fungi. A team of researchers have studied Cryptococcosis, a disease that ...

This movie shows the process of vomocytosis. A fungal cell (Cryptococcus neoformans) has been engulfed by a macrophage (a type of white blood cell); at the start of the movie the fungal cell is ...

Scientists have discovered a way to stop a deadly fungal infection from hijacking the body's immune system and spreading to the brain. Researchers, including those from Universities of Sheffield in ...

New research has discovered a way to stop a deadly fungus from ‘hijacking’ the body’s immune system and spreading to the brain. The study was led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with ...