Serious fungal infections cause 1.3 million deaths annually worldwide. Researchers have identified a new class of antifungals to treat the more than 300 million people worldwide who develop... Read more
An expert in environmental toxins at The University of Nottingham has developed a new antifungal technology which has the potential to play a major role in securing future food supplies. Blo... Read more
Researchers have discovered a method of making jet fuel from a common fungus found in decaying leaves, soil and rotting fruit, which they believe will lead to the economically viable product... Read more
A naturally occurring fungus might help curb the spread of an invasive tree species that is threatening forests in most of the United States, according to researchers. Researchers tested the... Read more
Microbes that thrive in lakes happily consume the pandemic fungus that has caused declines in more than half the planet’s amphibian species In 2012 a team of temperamental donkeys picked the... Read more
Over a billion people are affected by fungal infections every year, ranging in severity from topical skin conditions like athlete’s foot to life-threatening fungal blood infections. Th... Read more
Rutgers’ David Perlin says the public and physicians alike know far too little Ask someone what the term ‘fungus’ brings to mind, and chances are it will be an image of something that... Read more
Many fungi have antibacterial properties. Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that one gene in a common fungus acts as a master regulator, and deleting it has opened acces... Read more
Fungi have fantastic capabilities Fungi, with the exception of shitake and certain other mushrooms, tend to be something we associate with moldy bread or dank-smelling mildew. But they reall... Read more
Crop losses due to fungal attack challenge food security and threaten biodiversity More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world... Read more
The first one anyone has found to survive on a steady diet of polyurethane alone Polyurethane seemed like it couldn’t interact with the earth’s normal processes of breaking down and r... Read more
They have raised one third of the project’s projected $300,000 price tag. The deadly fungal infection known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed at least a million bats since it was first... Read more
Zoologists at Oregon State University have discovered that a freshwater species of zooplankton will eat a fungal pathogen which is devastating amphibian populations around the world. This ti... Read more
Spores help rice cope with drought and rising salt concentrations in soil. To ward off famine and potentially save millions of lives, researchers are looking for a little help from a tiny fu... Read more
Metallic copper surfaces kill microbes on contact, decimating their populations, according to a paper in the February 2011 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. They d... Read more
