Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. To borrow inositol from a person's brain, the fungi have an expanded set of genes that ...

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Last October when my 17-year-old cat, Abby, came down with a rattly chest, I took her to the vet thinking maybe a quick course of antibiotics would fix her right up. I had no idea ...

After entering the host, the leading cause of fungal meningitis, Cryptococcus neoformans, rapidly adapts by shrinking in size and acquiring other characteristics that allow it to better infect the ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has ...

PORTLAND — A new and potentially fatal strain of an airborne fungus, related to one that killed several people on Canada’s Vancouver Island, has turned up in Oregon and researchers say they don’t know ...

Researchers have pinpointed the environmental source of fungal infections that have been sickening HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California for decades. It literally grows on trees. The discovery is ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. In particular, they thrive on a sugar called inositol which is abundant in ...

Last October when my 17-year-old cat, Abby, came down with a rattly chest, I took her to the vet thinking maybe a quick course of antibiotics would fix her right up. I had no idea she would end up ...