Research led by the University of Birmingham has discovered a way to stop a deadly fungus from 'hijacking' the body's immune system and spreading to the brain. The team studied Cryptococcosis, a ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of stopping a deadly fungal infection from spreading from the lungs of patients to their brains. The pathogen hijacks the immune system, and studying this process ...

This movie shows the process of vomocytosis. A fungal cell (Cryptococcus neoformans) has been engulfed by a macrophage (a type of white blood cell); at the start of the movie the fungal cell is ...

A team of researchers have studied Cryptococcosis, a disease that infects humans and animals after breathing in airborne fungi. The disease can result in a lung infection that may subsequently spread ...