Pathogenic Fungus Loves Brain Sugar

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Pathogenic Fungus Loves Brain Sugar

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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 br

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This is your brain on Cryptococcus: Pathogenic fungus loves your brain sugar | Psydir News

news.psydir.com — “Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. To borrow inositol from a person's brain, the fungi have an expanded set of genes that encode for sugar transporter molecules. While a typical fungus has just two such genes, Cryptococcus have almost a dozen, according to new research.View full resource at news.psydir.com

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sciencedaily.com — “Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. To borrow inositol from a person's brain, the fungi have an expanded set of genes that encode for sugar transporter molecules. While a typical fungus has just two such genes, Cryptococcus have almost a dozen, according to new research.View full resource at sciencedaily.com

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