But scientists at the University of Hawaii have found a possible solution - marine fungi. Researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) in Mānoa believe it is a “promising and largely untapped ...

Source: Getty Images At an early stage, basal cell carcinoma is small and confined, and usually can be cured. When the cancer gets larger and grows deeper in the skin or spreads to other organs ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots. In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their ...

You’ve heard of the microbiome, the community of bacteria, viruses, archaea parasites, and fungi that live in our bodies. But that last member of the group, fungi, get a lot less attention than the ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Only the New York Yankees hit more home runs than the Orioles in 2024, edging out Baltimore’s young lineup by a mere two long balls for the MLB lead. With Tyler O’Neill now ...

Like humans, many fungi rely on plants as a food source. This impacts the yield of food crops. It's estimated farmers lose between 10 to 23% of their crops to fungal disease every year. The global ...

Fungal genetics is the study of the mechanisms of heritable information in fungi. Yeasts and filamentous fungi are extensively used as model organisms for eukaryotic genetic research, including ...

Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection. Most people are exposed to the fungi behind the disease regularly, but in certain individuals, the microbes can end up being deadly.

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even beneficial. Previous studies of endophytic fungi living ...

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