News tagged with yeast infection

Research shows that weakness can be an advantage in surviving deadly parasites

When battling an epidemic of a deadly parasite, less resistance can sometimes be better than more, a new study suggests.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Wash your mouth out with silver

Yeasts which cause hard-to-treat mouth infections are killed using silver nanoparticles in the laboratory, scientists have found. These yeast infections, caused by Candida albicans and Candida glabrata target the young, ol ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Is your child's hobby making him sick?

Research has shown that playing a musical instrument can help nourish, cultivate, and increase intelligence in children, but playing a used instrument also can pose a potentially dangerous health risk.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Hospitals warned that wet breathing system filters transmit harmful bacteria and yeast

Doctors have highlighted potential problems with the breathing system filters used in anaesthesia, including intensive care units, after demonstrating that they don't provide protection from harmful bacteria and yeast when ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery: Yeast make plant hormone that speeds infection

In their ongoing studies of how yeast (fungi) can infect a host and cause disease, a research team at the Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has made an unexpected ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fighting fungal infections with bacteria

A bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists writing in the May issue of Microbiology. The research could be a step toward ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists pinpoint source of recurrent yeast infections in autoimmune syndrome

(PhysOrg.com) -- It turns out that the immune system can create its own infections. Scientists now report that the immune-fighting proteins that keep yeast in check in healthy immune systems are under siege in patients with ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antibodies attack immune proteins

Two studies published online on February 1 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine reveal that patients with a rare autoimmune disease produce antibodies that attack microbe-fighting immune proteins called cytokines. These ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers take aim at hard-to-treat fungal infections

A team of researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park has developed a new model system to study fungal infections. The system can be a powerful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pumpkin skin may scare away germs

The skin of that pumpkin you carve into a Jack-o'-Lantern to scare away ghosts and goblins on Halloween contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mounting a multi-layered attack on fungal infections

Unravelling a microbe's multilayer defence mechanisms could lead to effective new treatments for potentially lethal fungal infections in cancer patients and others whose natural immunity is weakened.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New way to fight drug-resistant fungal infections discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- The secret to fighting often lethal drug resistant fungal infections is to knock out the bug's molecular chaperone, according to U of T researchers.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New mechanism fundamental to the spread of invasive yeast infections identified

A group of researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University Biological Sciences Professor Aaron Mitchell has identified a novel regulatory gene network that plays an important role in the spread of common, and sometimes deadly, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Yeast missing sex genes undergo unexpected sexual reproduction

An emerging form of the pathogenic yeast Candida is able to complete a full sexual cycle in a test tube, even though it's missing the genes for reproduction. And it may also do so while infecting us, according to Duke Univer ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0