Trees now account for more than a quarter of all species on the Red List and are at risk of extinction in nearly every country. Fungi — or a lack thereof — could partly explain why trees are failing ...
The fungi show potential to target tuberculosis, offering hope of more effective treatments for a disease which still affects thousands of Americans each year.
A fungus discovered in the mouse stomach may hold ... Scientists have recently come to appreciate the importance, for human health and disease, of microbes—often called "commensals"—that ...
Fungi grow by releasing spores that turn into long, filamentous threads that are thinner than a strand of human hair, explained Nicholas P. Money, a fungal biologist at Miami University in Oxford ...
decades after the incident—where human settlement and habitation are restricted. Within this zone, however, scientists have discovered an unlikely survivor: a resilient black fungus called ...