Why diseases caused by fungi are so frightening
Gizmodo: Mahmoud Ghannoum, professor at the School of Medicine, explained why it’s hard for our bodies to fight off fungi. “Fungi are eukaryotic (organisms whose cells contain a membrane-bound nucleus), like us, but bacteria are prokaryotic,” he said. “So that’s why it can be challenging to find drugs that can hurt them but not be too toxic to us.”