Leibniz-HKI🦘🌤️ The corona pandemic led to the design of new synthetic polymers against fungal infections, thanks to a unique 🇦🇺🤝🇩🇪 collaboration, and to a study now in #NatureCommunications. Big congrats to the entire reserach team!
👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50491-x#citeas
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A synthetic peptide mimic kills Candida albicans and synergistically prevents infection - Nature Communications
Fungal infections are severely underestimated as a cause of mortality, and alternative drugs are urgently needed. Here, Schaefer et al. show that a synthetic polymer mimicking defensins shows different, but synergistic activity with known antifungals.
