Fungus can do a lot for us — make bread, make beer and cure infections, in the case of penicillin. But when the fungus infects us, well, that’s not nearly as much fun as beer. From your head to your ...

At Duke University, two researchers are studying what happens when heat changes fungi at the most fundamental level and ...

Stock image of a computer-generated Aspergillus illustration. A type of fungus that can grow “astonishingly quickly” — and be fatal to humans — is expected to spread as global warming increases ...

A team of researchers from Yokohama National University, Japan, have discovered a previously unknown species of marine fungus that can kill harmful, bloom-forming algae. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Cancer is one of the causes responsible for the most deaths worldwide; in 2020, for example, it resulted in ten million deaths. It has been estimated that micro-organism infections caused between ...

Researchers at the University of Guelph have developed a faster way to identify potential drug targets against a dangerous ...

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Our bodies host a variety of microorganisms, and the microbial communities in and on our bodies have to maintain the right balances among their members, or problems can arise. This includes the ...