Researchers observed that the cells are able to escape from the macrophages without destroying them, preventing an immune response. Yeast fungus cells that commonly attack HIV infected patients escape ...

H. S. Chae, G. E. Jang, N. H. Kim, H. R. Son, J. H. Lee, S. H. Kim, G. N. Park, H. J. Jo, J. T. Kim and K. S. Chang Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) is a ...

Yeast fungus cells that kill thousands of AIDS patients every year escape detection by our bodies' defenses by hiding inside our own defense cells, and hitch a ride through our systems before ...

A beneficial yeast that tolerates fungicide may offer a "one-two punch" against Fusarium graminearum, the fungal culprit behind Fusarium head blight ("scab"). Scientists isolated an improved variant ...

Since Cryptococcus, like most club fungi (Basidiomycota), must mate to produce airborne spores, researchers have been faced with a mystery. "The unusual thing about C. neoformans and C. gattii is for ...

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The cryptococci used in the experiment came from a patient who had died of the disease at the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1951. 6 (This stock culture was obtained through the courtesy of Dr.

You might say Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast are the house-cats of the microbial world. Although they've been domesticated at least since the Pharaohs ruled Egypt -- the earliest records show that ...