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Fungus-Creating Dandruff for Hair and Sea Coral

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Fungus is a living organism that’s all around us.

It grows on the walls, on our skin, but also on coral, and it’s become a link to understand how species can evolve.  It turns out that the fungus linked to dandruff and flakey skin is very similar to a strain that lives on Hawaiian coral, arctic soil, and deep sea vents.

Scientists with the University of Hawaii at Manoa knew that genus Malassezia was a common fungus, but DNA bar mapping of samples taken from new deep sea exploration shows that it’s growing all over the ocean floor and it's an ecologically hyper-diverse fungus, and it's closely related to the same fungus on humans.  Anthony Amend is from the Botany department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Amend says that the discovery opens the door to discover new species and their links to humans. 

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Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.
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