Researchers at Leibniz-HKI have now discovered that fungal spores can inhibit the protective response of surface cells of the lungs. "These epithelial cells in our lungs are an important barrier ...

Two men have died in New York after attempting to ... the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases. After breathing in spores of a fungus called Histoplasma capsulatum, which was hidden within ...

The scientists found that the fungus is able to trick the fly's immune system agents called Toll receptors to release two different ... Sarm and kill cells enables spores to beat the blood-brain ...