Increasing Threat of Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities Candida auris (C. auris), an emerging fungus considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread…
The discovery reveals a new target for combating the deadly invader. Aspergillus and other fungi are so ubiquitous in our environment that we inhale hundreds…
A new study led by the University of Bath in the UK has found that harmful fungal toxins are increasing in Europe’s wheat crops, with…
A new study helps clarify the evolutionary origins of the “platypus of fungi.” Approximately 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along…
A New Yeast Fungus Have you ever heard of the yeast Candida auris? If not, you are most likely not the only one since it…
Outdated maps of disease-causing fungi may lead to delayed and missed diagnoses. Fungi in the soil cause a significant number of serious lung infections in…
Patients prescribed antibiotics in the hospital are more likely to get fungal infections because of disruption to the immune system in the gut. Using immune-boosting…
A protein that permits the fungus that causes white mold stem rot in over 600 plant species to overcome plant defenses has been identified by…
A water-borne fungus that has led to the extinction of several species of amphibians that spend all or part of their life cycle in water…
How a deadly land fungus began killing marine mammals in the Salish Sea. In the early 2000s, a fungus infected hundreds of animals and people…
Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a fungus parasitizing an ant, and the fossil also represents a new fungal genus…
University of Tsukuba research team sheds new light on how fungi that cause diseases can penetrate tissues by squeezing through tiny gaps between plant or…
Fully occupied intensive care units (ICUs). Physically and mentally exhausted health workers. Chaotically overcrowded hospitals. These and similar problems posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in…
Researchers have re-animated specimens of a fungus that causes coffee wilt to discover how the disease evolved and how its spread can be prevented. Coffee…
In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, University of California, Irvine (UCI) chemists report that they’ve found nanoscale…
University of Michigan biologists have documented, for the first time, the widespread presence of the notorious chytrid fungus in 80 species of frogs from lowland…
The UK’s new plan that will deal with ash disease might not come in time, as most of the country’s 90 million ash trees are…
The zombie-ant fungus is part of the Ophiocordyceps genus, and its strange way of infecting worker ants’ heads and controlling them to distribute more spores…
