[HN Gopher] Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors ___________________________________________________________________ Scientists are finding fungi in cancerous tumors Author : gmays Score : 77 points Date : 2022-10-10 16:26 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com) | dominotw wrote: | Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth? (nature.com) | - 82 comments | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33133477 | kkoncevicius wrote: | As far as I can gather from reading this - contamination cannot | be ruled out. | dominotw wrote: | > 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. | solmanac wrote: | I'm going to assume they are fighting the tumors and take it as a | sign to increase my dosages of reishi and chaga powders. | black_puppydog wrote: | Feed the chaganaut! | riskcomplex wrote: | This isn't terribly surprising since one of the first things a | cancerous tumor does (often) is create an "cold" immune | environment to evade detection by the hosts immune system. This | is why certain infections can actually kill a tumor: no immune | system to kill the new pathogen and it ends up destroying the | cancerous cells. | hanniabu wrote: | This supports the thesis that cancer can be a byproduct of your | microbiome | mbreese wrote: | _> Bhatt tells Nature News that the researchers took most of | their samples from databases that didn't aim to minimize fungal | contamination during collection. So, she'd like to see if other | studies can get the same results with samples taken in a sterile | environment. _ | | For me, this is the real question. I expect for a certain level | of bacterial and fungal contamination in sequencing experiments. | Hell, I've even seen sequencing reads contaminated by the | sequencing facility and not from tissue collection lab. | hondo77 wrote: | Great./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. | [deleted] | anthk wrote: | Some Spanish "magufo" (think of Alex Jones but without the far | right ideology and being a fake practicioner) are like that, | search for Pamies in Google/DDG. I'm worried about the reaction | from these snake-oil scammers, too. | | EDIT: I found an article in English: | | https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/18/inenglish/15398... | clumsysmurf wrote: | Something 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" | | ... | | They were stickier, more resistant to antimicrobials, and more | difficult to remove from teeth than either the bacteria or the | fungi alone | | ... | | 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... | nomel wrote: | They also sometimes test delicious: | https://asm.org/Articles/2020/June/The-Sourdough-Microbiome | pazimzadeh wrote: | That is really cool. Reminds of this paper: | | Swimming bacteria promote dispersal of non-motile | staphylococcal species | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28398350/ | formerkrogemp wrote: | Lycan is also an assemblage of fungi and cyanobacteria or algae | if I'm not mistaken.. | cossatot wrote: | Lichen are. (Lycan are werewolves I think.) | _dain_ wrote: | I told you people not to turn your back on fungi and you didn't | listen. now look what they're doing | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31197031 | macawfish wrote: | Are there not also sometimes fungi in non-cancerous human | tissues? | wil421 wrote: | 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... | jjtheblunt wrote: | definitely are (athlete's foot, ringworm, candida, ...) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-10 23:00 UTC)