Why scientists are nervous about fungi

(text.npr.org)

25 points | by mooreds a day ago ago

4 comments

  • tim333 4 hours ago ago

    There was some interesting research where they found "signs of fungal infection in all the [alzheimer's patients] samples and none of the controls". (https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fungal-origin-alzh... 2015)

    not sure if that proved to be a thing. I tried looking it up at the time as my dad had odd nervous stuff but didn't get very far.

  • burnt-resistor 7 hours ago ago

    Antimycotic drug discovery was severely underfunded and neglected the last I checked when c. auris made headlines for taking over hospital equipment and walls in hard-to-clean ways. Perhaps AI and computational drug discovery can help remedy this.

    Antibiotics too and curtailing their abuse in viral-cause clinical and meat ag settings needs to be made law for the greater good(tm).

  • tim-tday 17 hours ago ago

    One specific drug resistant pathogen.

  • Sarkie 16 hours ago ago

    The last of us