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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

The mystery of mistletoe mitochondria

Mistletoe is an evergreen parasitic plant that lives on trees and steals water and nutrients from them. It features in European folklore as a symbol for fertility and vitality, is a well-known addition to Christmas and is also known to comic fans as the main... click to read more

Andrew Maclean | Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Wellcome Centre For Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection & Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Janneke Balk | Project Leader at Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

Etienne Meyer | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

mitochondria

parasites

respiration

mistletoe

parasitism

Reading time 4 min

published on Dec 21, 2018