Editor’s Selections: New fungus from bikini bottom, and then there came fungus, and anti-cancer fungi
June 24th, 2011 Editor's Selections 9 Comments
Vincent Racaniello selects several notable posts each week from molecular and cellular biology and virology. He unravels viruses at virology blog.
<img title=”Vincent Racaniello” src=”http://researchblogging.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/smallvincent.jpg” alt=”Vincent Racaniello” width=”47″ height=”47″ />Vincent Racaniello selects several notable posts each week from molecular and cellular biology and virology. He writes about viruses at <a href=”http://www.virology.ws” target=”_blank”>virology blog</a>.
- What is round, bright orange, full of holes and resembles a sponge? A newly-discovered fungus called SpongeBob SquarePants, or Spongiforma squarepantsii. It is a terrestrial fungus that lives in rainforests on Borneo.
- Recently a series of tornados ravaged the city of Joplin, Missouri. Over 150 people were killed and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed. Now another problem has surfaced: fungal infections.
- Polysaccharopeptides recovered from some species of fungi have anti-tumor activity because they up-regulate the immune system. Polysaccharopeptides activate phagocytes, natural killer T-cells, and CD4+ T cells.
I’ll be back next Friday with more selections.
