Talk:Cryptococcus neoformans

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Rewrite needed

This page really needs a rewrite... Cryptococcus is an encapsulated yeast. It commonly lives in bird poo such as from chickens and pigeons.

There is a good artical here: http://www.doctorfungus.org/thefungi/Cryptococcus.htm

For now I will leave it to the original authors to tackle the update.

New Revision 1-14-06

I wrote this retaining some lines I didn't think fit very well, but I figured instead of throwing away something that technically is true just because organization is bad, I would synthesize for now.

Bill

The picture of the organism is currently giving a 403: Forbidden error

Cryptococcus neoformans used for cleanup of radiation

I notice in the article that there is no mention of the radiation-consumption properties of Cryptococcus neoformans. I am new to wiki and don't want to screw anything up, so I thought it best to just include some references.

https://realitysandwich.com/radiation-eating-fungi/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro1694

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479722001931 Xaosmaster (talk) 04:54, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]