Helena Alpkvist from the Infectious Diseases and Dermatology Unit at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge, is defending her ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

A pivotal study has uncovered a genetic defense mechanism in lily plants against Botrytis cinerea, the fungus behind gray ...

A pivotal study reveals tactics used by the pathogen Botrytis cinerea to undermine strawberry plant immunity. Researchers ...

Yet a small minority of the 3.8 million fungal species are thermophiles, and able to cause deadly and opportunistic human fungal diseases, mainly in individuals with impaired immune systems ... from ...

An estimated 72 million ambulatory visits for superficial cutaneous fungal infections (SCFIs) in the United States were recorded during 2005-2016, with an increasing trend over the years.

A fungus that causes genital infections has seen a spike in cases in New York City, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. The fungus, named Trichophyton mentagrophytes ...

The discovery, reported October 30 in Nature, could potentially pave the way for understanding the immune response to other ... immune evasion in T. brucei infection and potentially other chronic ...

The brain constantly engages in dialogue with the body's immune system. Such communication appears aimed at ensuring a delicate balance between defending against injury and infection and guarding ...

"This means that having symbiotic algae inside their cells makes it harder for the jellyfish to survive infections." Taking a closer look at the genes involved in the immune response, the ...

The cell has the ability to modify gene expression in response to its internal conditions ... of disease transmission in other associated fungal phytopathogens, (ii) finding key epigenetic alterations ...