Like many fungi and one-celled organisms, Candida albicans, a normally harmless microbe that can turn deadly, has long been thought to reproduce without sexual mating. But a new study shows that C.

About 80% of people have the fungus Candida albicans in their gut. Although most of the time it persists unnoticed for years causing no health problems, C. albicans can turn into a dangerous microbe ...

The importance of host factors in determining susceptibility to systemic Candida albicans infections is evident in both humans and mice. We have used a mouse model to study the genetic basis of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- You might call Candida albicans a shape-shifter: As this fungus grows, it can multiply as single, oval-shaped cells called yeast or propagate in an elongated form called hypha, ...

University of Toronto scientists are re-thinking how a lethal fungus grows and kills immune cells. They published a study in Nature Communications that suggests a new approach to therapy for Candida ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the function of the zinc finger transcription factor ROB1 and its two phenotypically distinct alleles in the ...

Candida albicans is among the microbes that can be harmful if not contained. Infections can usually be treated with antifungal drugs. However, invasive C. albicans infections of the bloodstream or ...

In this study the mycoflora of the normal adult gastrointestinal tract is described. Qualitative and quantitative determinations as well as variations in distribution along the alimentary canal, are ...

A protein called Sir2 may facilitate C. albicans' transition from ovoid yeast to thread-like hypha. C. albicans cells that were missing the Sir2 gene were less likely to form true hyphae in lab ...