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Joe Hsu

joined in Jan 16, 2019

Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Hsu has 1 break published.

Finding Dracula’s silver bullet: the fight against a bloodthirsty fungus

That's correct, the darkness loving, light fearing, blood sucking prince of darkness, Count Dracula was a fungus. In our recent research, we describe that just like Dracula, the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus "wants your blood". The parallels are uncanny, both prefer dark places (Dracula: a coffin,... click to read more

Joe Hsu | Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

parasites

parasitism

Dracula

Aspergillus fumigatus

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 16, 2019

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