The fungus implies mutation compared to the famous series. Global warming causes Bibra to withstand high temperatures
The fungus implies mutation compared to the famous series. – February 2 Science AlertReported that scientists have found that fungi have evolved to be able to withstand higher temperatures. due to climate change or global warming, in line with popular movie series and games like “The Last of Us”
The findings have been published in the journal PNAS Occurred amid global criticism of the movie series The Last of Us (The Last of Us) adapted from the game of the same name. Currently airing on HBO’s streaming platform (HBO GO in Thailand).
The Last of Us has a doomsday plot following a pandemic of a fungal genus. “Cordyceps” (Cordyceps) or insect fungi, and also known as “Tang Chao”, can be found in tropical rain forests in many countries. including Thailand
Racordiceps have the ability to invade the ant’s body and control their movements to accomplish the ra’s purpose, self-sacrifice in order to spread further. Intriguing scientists as The Last of Us transforms infected humans into zombies.
Insect remnants following infection with cordyceps fungi (National Geographic)
The human body’s temperature in excess of the growth of fungi is one of the human evolutionary defenses. The latest discovery of the scientists above reflects that. Fungi may become the cause of more diseases in the future as they adapt to growing in a warmer world.
Ms Aziya Kuza, geneticist and microbiologist Duke College of Medicine, North Carolina, USA, says mold is not considered an infectious disease because humans cannot pass it from one person to another.
“We humans all breathe mold spores in the air every day. Our immune system already has the ability to defeat them,” Guza said.
Fungal colonies Cryptococcus deneoformans in a petri dish (US Centers for Disease Control or CDC)
However, the team experimented with Cryptococcus deneoformans growing under simulated laboratory conditions and increasing the ambient temperature from 30 to 37 degrees Celsius, and found that the genetic material of the fungus began to change.
The team of scientists found that Changes in genes that do not produce proteins above affect other genes. The changes, namely T1, Tcn12 and Cnl1, may make the mold resistant. But it was not clear, so it was used to experiment with rats.
Ms Kousa said gene changes were found in three locations in the fungus. During only 10 days of infection in mice, and the higher the temperature environment, the more rapid changes in genes are likely to make them more vulnerable to mutation.
However, scientists confirm that The study is still preliminary and the fungal spores are much larger than the virus, making it possible to protect them with a regular dust mask.
However, the above results clearly show that a higher temperature environment causes C. deneoformans to mutate more quickly. This reflects that some wild fungi may be mutating at a faster rate than expected due to rising average global temperatures.
Today, mold is one of the leading causes of hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. But most of them occurred in immunocompromised patients, but Ms Kousa admitted that the trends she found were consistent with The Last of Us plot.
The Last Of Us game on the Sony PlayStation console.
“Actually, I want to mean this. But cut out the zombie part! (Laughs)” and said, “Fungal infections are getting more and more patients. But most of the reasons are because we have patients with weakened immune systems and people with more underlying diseases,” Ms Kusa concluded.
