Microbiologists find source of fungus’s damaging growth
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 22:14
in Biology & Nature
Candida albicans, a fungus that kills more than 10,000 people with weakened immune systems each year, grows more dangerous as it forms and extends long strands of cells called hyphal filaments. In a new study, microbiologists describe a key factor involved in this damaging growth.
