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Fungi and other organisms called oomycetes are
highly adaptable. That's bad news for the global food supply.
Researchers have discovered the first known example of a hybrid fungus that infects humans.
From fungi and flies to spiders and fish, living collections need care and feeding even when their human keepers are dealing with a pandemic and its resultant social distancing.
Most fungi go unseen, but they play a vital role in ecosystems.
Americans love their supplements, but some of the products are contaminated with heavy metals, bacteria and toxic fungi. The FDA has little control because of a law passed in 1994.
Our climate is changing – and so must architecture.
Your taste for cheese and yoghurt may never have been satisfied were it not for illicit microbial sex.
Bread. Yeast. Wine. Cheese. All these delicious foods are courtesy of various forms of domesticated fungi. So how, exactly, did humans tame wild fungi into the cooperative species that make our food?
Mention fungi and most people think of eating mushrooms or yeasts in bread or beer. But fungi are now on the CDC's list of public health threats as the number of deadly infections they cause rise.
The CDC just released a list of bacteria and fungi that pose, or have the potential to pose, a serious health threat. Here are four strategies for curbing the rise of these superbugs.
There is no solution to the unethical, unsustainable fashion industry – yet
A real-life experiment to mimic future conditions for soils affected by climate change suggests that some of the biggest impacts could be to ecosystems buried out of sight beneath our feet.
Many articles describe the rise of superbugs - bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic drugs - as inevitable. But society has the knowledge to stop the spread of these microbes.
Infected ants help the fungus to spread its spores and reproduce.
The fungus birch polypore has a remarkable list of medicinal uses.
In the ongoing arms race to kill off mosquitoes that spread malaria, researchers have modified a naturally occurring fungus that kills mosquitoes with a deadly toxin to wipe out these insects faster.
The discovery of a fungus fossil is pushing back the origin of these ancient organisms and rewriting what we know about evolution and the tree of life.
Newly discovered billion-year-old fossilised fungi are more than twice as old as previous finds, and suggest that fungi may have been preparing Earth's lands for plant life for millions of years.
On your marks, get ready, go! Australian researchers compete in a global event to try to stop fungal diseases.
Top contributors
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences, Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, and Director of the Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Research Specialist, Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Adjunct academic, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor of Plant Pathology and Mycology, West Virginia University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Mycology, West Virginia University
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australian National University
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in Parasitology and Evolutionary Biology, University of New England
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Lecturer, Environmental Science, Murdoch University
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Professor in Plant Ecology, Murdoch University
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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Research scientist, CSIRO
