The University of Santo Tomas (UST), represented by academic researchers, students and alumni, won several awards ...

Historic Outbreaks of Coffee Wilt Disease Linked to Gene Transfer from Another Fungus Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related ...

In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is prized for its purported medicinal effects.

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and their partners reveal their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2024. An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has ...

While filming a BBC nature program — Winterwatch — the crew came across a spider infected with a fungus. The white fungus looked like frost or coral had grown from the spider’s body. Now, after ...

They're unicelllular, but don't belong to the domain of bacteria. In fact, protists are any 'eukaryotes' - as biologists call organisms whose cells have a nucleus containing their DNA - which aren't ...

While filming a documentary in Northern Ireland, a team of scientists discovered a new fungus that appears to manipulate spiders’ behavior–and turn them into “zombies.” The fungus named ...

While many traditional Chinese/herbal medicine consumers are drawn to the fungus for its supposed health benefits, my interest lies in a darker side of its harvest: the deadly relationship between ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

The fungus absorbs all of the spider's nutrients and when conditions are right, like high humidity in the cave, G. attenboroughii grows long structures on the spider to disperse its spores.

Fungus spores. In HBO’s post-apocalyptic zombie ... an expert on fungal pathogens from the Medical University of Graz, said that disasters like the LA wildfires could lead to fungal infections ...

White matter and other changes around the toenails and fingernails can occur with psoriasis or nail fungus. However, fungal infections are contagious, and psoriasis is not. The causes and ...