This is your brain on Cryptococcus: Pathogenic fungus loves your brain sugar

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 04:56 in Biology & Nature

Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. In particular, they thrive on a sugar called inositol which is abundant in the human brain and spinal cord...

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