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Thu 12 Dec 2008Asexual revolution breaks out in the lab
UCD researchers have discovered a deadly fungus that may help transplant and other patients who are at high risk from a common fungus
THE SECRET SEX LIFE of a killer fungus has been discovered for the first time - and it happened in an Irish lab. The discovery has taken nearly a century and a half to find and could now pave the way for more effective measures against Aspergillus fumigatus, which poses a major medical threat to people on chemotherapy or following a transplant.
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