{"id":182774,"date":"2024-02-15T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-key-to-fighting-fungal-infections-may-have-been-inside-us-all-along"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:29:27","slug":"the-key-to-fighting-fungal-infections-may-have-been-inside-us-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-key-to-fighting-fungal-infections-may-have-been-inside-us-all-along","title":{"rendered":"The key to fighting fungal infections may have been inside us all along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-key-to-fighting-fungal-infections-may-have-been-inside-us-all-along2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fungal infections have been slipping past their usual geographic boundaries and increasing in hospitals and other settings \u2014 and, as Scientific American\u2019s Maryn McKenna has pointed out, we currently don\u2019t have much recourse against them.<\/p>\n<p>Fungal infections are incredibly hard to beat, even with modern medicine.<\/p>\n<p>But MIT researchers studying the common yeast <em>Candida <\/em><em>albicans <\/em>may have found a new effective antifungal candidate, and you\u2019ve got some in you right now: mucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungal infections have been slipping past their usual geographic boundaries and increasing in hospitals and other settings \u2014 and, as Scientific American\u2019s Maryn McKenna has pointed out, we currently don\u2019t have much recourse against them. Fungal infections are incredibly hard to beat, even with modern medicine. But MIT researchers studying the common yeast Candida albicans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}