The immune system is a highly sophisticated defense network designed to protect against pathogens. A research team from the ...

Taken together, the two studies suggest that naturally occurring bacterial molecules such as gladiolin can act against ...

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 ...

Relying on a urinary catheter is a standard part of medical care for hundreds of thousands of patients each year.

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 ...

An immune pathway has been discovered that prevents a normally harmless fungus from developing into a fatal infection. The King's College London study, published in Nature Microbiology, provides the ...

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 ...

Share on Pinterest A study in mice and cell cultures suggests that Candida albicans can infect the brain and trigger Alzheimer’s-like mechanisms. Image credit: Paul Campbell/Getty Images. Scientists ...

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.

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, ...