"You can't fight what you can't see. We need better diagnostics to stop C. auris from spreading." Fungal pathogens are a major threat to public health as they are becoming more prevalent and resistant ...

Using a comprehensive surveillance programme with species-level identification, we also identified significant differences in the distribution of infecting species between IVDU and non-IVDU cases.

Accurate determination of intracellular metabolite levels requires well-validated procedures for sampling and sample treatment. Several methods exist for metabolite extraction, but the literature is ...

In early animal studies, the NXT-2 vaccine has looked effective against both life-threatening and common fungal infections.

UC Irvine, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), have used biology to convert human urine into a valuable ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list seven species of pangolin distributed throughout Asia and Africa as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended ...

How Many Types of Yeast Are There? Single-celled microorganisms that are members of the fungus kingdom, yeast has been around for 100 million years, with 1,500 species recognized.

Species assignments in the genus Pichia have been markedly affected by gene sequence analysis. This restructuring of yeast classification, however, has resulted in new genus assignments for many ...

Under a microscope, the researchers watched as the two species closed in on each other and the bacteria then swarmed into the puddle-like fluid surrounding the yeast. They found that bacteria cultured ...