Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
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Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
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Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#2As far as I can gather from reading this - contamination cannot be ruled out.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#3Are there not also sometimes fungi in non-cancerous human tissues?
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#4Are there not also sometimes fungi in non-cancerous human tissues?
definitely are
(athlete's foot, ringworm, candida, ...)
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#5Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth? (nature.com) - 82 comments
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#6As far as I can gather from reading this - contamination cannot be ruled out.
> Although the researchers developed methods to filter any potential contaminants out of the sequencing data, she would like to see the results replicated using samples taken in a sterile environment.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#7Are there not also sometimes fungi in non-cancerous human tissues?
There are around 50 fungi in our guts alone[1].
>Mahmoud Ghannoum, Ph.D., an NIH-funded researcher since 1993, who’s spent his career studying fungi in the body (there are about 50 different species living in our gut specifically). Dr. Ghannoum is credited with uncovering the significant interplay between bacteria and fungi, which affects the critical balance of the body’s microbiome. (Much of this interaction occurs at a digestive plaque wall that Ghannoum discovered with his research team at Case Western Reserve University in 2016.)
[1] https://goop.com/wellness/health/new-in-gut-health-fungis-im...
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#8I'm going to assume they are fighting the tumors and take it as a sign to increase my dosages of reishi and chaga powders.
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#9Great./s Now the people who told me that drinking baking soda in water would cure my cancer "because cancer is a fungus" are going to go wild over this.
Re: Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors
#10Something similar to this was recently found in the mouth
"Across-kingdom partnership between bacteria and fungi can result in the two joining to form a “superorganism”
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They were stickier, more resistant to antimicrobials, and more difficult to remove from teeth than either the bacteria or the fungi alone
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What’s more, the assemblages unexpectedly sprout “limbs” that propel them to “walk” and “leap” to quickly spread on the tooth surface, despite each microbe on its own being non-motile"
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/microbes-cause-cavities-can...