#candida

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Candida vol 2 no 6 Jun 1973

Alessandro Biffignandi

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Robert Sean Leonard in a promo shoot for his return to The Old Globe in Pygmalion (2013) as “Professor Henry Higgins”.

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cutie

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June 6, 1993 - On this day in RSL history, Robert attends the Tony Awards, nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play, playing Eugene Marchbanks in Candida. Robert received the only nomination for the entire production.

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hii everybody! my year-long fall island is FINALLY finished!!

Candida is an island taken over by parasitic fungi. deep, winding forests, marshy swamps, and rot galore!

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i'll be posting highlights in the coming days! feel free to visit, post, and share if you want to!

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Destructive Duo

The yeast Candida albicans (turquoise) and the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis (purple) are two microorganisms that generally live harmoniously inside the human body. Sometimes, E. faecalis has a suppressive effect on the yeast, but other times, these two bugs form a dastardly alliance that results in destructive infections. Scientists are therefore trying to understand how the same pair of organisms can have such different relationships. New research indicates that the particular strain of E. faecalis determines the outcome. It turns out that only bacteria that produce a toxin called cytolysin, which destroys host cells, exacerbates infections. The connection of E. faecalis and C. albicans positions the bacteria in contact with host cells, where its toxin wreaks havoc. Simultaneously, the yeast weakens host cells making them susceptible to the toxin. Knowing which strain of the bacteria is present in an infected patient could therefore inform how aggressive the treatment needs to be.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from work by Mario Kapitan and colleagues, Ilse D. Jacobsen Lab, Leibniz-HKI

Research Group Microbial Immunology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany

Image originally published with no restrictions – hence published here with as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), November 2025

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Today's Will Connolly is:...uh actually I don't know what this is from does anyone know where this is from..?

EDIT: it's willc as Eugene Marchbanks in "Candida"!!