Through a recent notice, the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has ...

Researchers at the University of South Australia are using machine learning for hyperspectral imaging to detect contamination ...

Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the ...

The microbiome not only consists of bacteria, but also of fungi. Most of them support human and animal health. However, some ...

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...

The mushroom Laccaria amethystina, which grows near beech trees, can be hard to see from above, given its drab cap. But by lying on the ground and looking up at the gills on the cap’s underside, an ...

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that there ...

A deadly, drug-resistant hospital fungus may finally have a weakness—and scientists think they’ve found it.

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

Scientists have discovered a genetic process which could unlock new ways to treat a mysterious and deadly fungal infection ...

A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ecological functions. According to a study published in the journal Communications ...