What's the latest medical research into fungus?

Did you know you have fungi living in your gut? Ellie and Laura share recent improvement in anti-fungal drugs, the relatively new discovery that fungi are found in many types of cancer and speculate on what this might mean for future cancer therapies. They also consider their own experiences with fungus and how they can bias a person's point of view.

Ellie mentions a book in relation to how fungi in the gut affect mental health: The Immune Mind by Dr. Monty Lyman.

Read more about antifungal drugs as well as fungi in cancer:

• The podcast episode from the journal, Nature, which provides a transcript and excellent summary of antifungal drug development
• A news story in The Guardian about lethal fungal infections
• Well known research about fungi and pancreatic cancer from 2019
• Research from 2022 which surveyed 35 different types of cancer and found evidence of fungi in all of them
• Research from 2023 that replicated the study from 2019 but found no evidence of fungi causing cancer
• An in-depth summary from BBC Future about the effects of bacteria and fungi in cancer