News articles tagged with 'fungal' (Page 5)
Scientists battle against dangerous corn toxin
— 9 Apr 2008 12:20 | BiologyThe spiralling use of corn for food and fuel is creating heightened concerns about contamination of this staple crop with deadly aflatoxin. Produced by certain fungi that grow on corn,…
People with Job's syndrome lack specific white blood cells
— 17 Mar 2008 14:53 | HealthScientists have made another major breakthrough - the second in the past year - in understanding a rare immune disorder called Job's syndrome. Job's syndrome is characterised by recurrent…
New study finds resistant organisms at core of soft contact lens corneal infections
— 29 Jan 2008 14:29 | HealthUniversity Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University researchers find lens care solutions inadequately tested with outdated and irrelevant fungus strain. In 2006, Bausch and Lomb withdrew…
Scientists complete genome sequence of fungus responsible for dandruff, skin disorders
— 7 Nov 2007 08:30 | BiologyScientists from PG Beauty announced that they successfully sequenced the complete genome for Malassezia globosa, a naturally occurring fungus responsible for the onset of dandruff and…
How Candida albicans transforms into life-threatening form
— 5 Oct 2007 06:37 | BiologyResearchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have discovered new molecular mechanisms that provide a more…
Scientists harvest answers from genome of grain fungus
— 7 Sep 2007 14:42 | EnvironmentEvil forces thrive in an unstable environment. At least, that's the picture being painted in the first waves of data being reaped from the genomesequence of the fungal plant pathogen,…
Self-fertility in fungi
— 16 Aug 2007 16:58 | BiologyResearch from The University of Nottingham sheds new light on a fascinating phenomenon of the natural world - the ability of some species to reproduce sexually without a partner. Scientists…