The human gut microbiome contains a wide range of organisms, including different bacteria, viruses, and fungi, including the fungus Candida albicans. This natural fungus has two different forms, one ...

The fungus Candida albicans, a type of yeast, lives in the gut microbiota and plays a role in health and gastrointestinal disease. The scanning electron micrograph shows the yeast in its pathogenic, ...

A research team has found a breakthrough herbal medicine treatment for a common human fungal pathogen that lives in almost 80 percent of people. The team discovered a medicinal herb called Gymnema ...

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, consisting of ...

Histoplasma capsulatum is a primary fungal pathogen that can switch between a sporulating hyphal form in the soil and a yeast form in the host. Growth in the yeast form is thought to be essential for ...

Researchers have identified the regulator of the phase transition from the non-pathogenic hyphal form to the pathogenic yeast form in dimorphic fungal pathogens, according to a paper published ...