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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi

  • January 28, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi
Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs or who have received organ transplants. However, the mechanisms by which it infects a host organism—and how it acquires resistance to known treatments—remain largely unknown, which makes devising new therapeutics a formidable challenge.

Originally published at Phys.org

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