Fungal infections can be a pain to eradicate. But new results show why these infections can take an even tighter hold on people or animals that are missing a specific protein. The international research team that discovered this protein, and its importance, named it MelLec. This protein helps fight fungal infections by identifying a specific type of melanin that fungi make. Several aspects of this new discovery fit a creation-based model of creature adaptation.The journal Nature published the research results.1 Tiny pancake-shaped cells make up blood-vessel walls and produce MelLec. Many copies of MelLec lurk throughout blood vessels and...
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