Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet ...

The time it takes to grow new skin for burns victims could be improved thanks to a new method of cell cultivation using algae ...

Fungi are increasingly resistant to antifungals, and the variation in resistance has significantly increased. This is evident ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

A dreaded fungus known to inhabit tombs has been reconstituted as a treatment for leukemia and is performing as effectively ...

Aspergillus flavus is a toxic crop fungus that has been linked to deaths in the excavation of ancient tombs. It was recently used in a test against leukemia cells and resulted in those cells being ...

Fungi don’t develop resistance to this group of molecules easily, but the mandimycin discoverers were able to culture fungi in the lab that were resistant to them, including to amphotericin B ...

The fungi communicat­ed with the robots through electrical signals called action potentials. These zaps are similar to those produced by heart and nerve cells.

Scientists had previously tried transferring plant chloroplasts into fungi cells, but the cells’ cleanup squad destroyed foreign organelles within hours.

A culture uses a sample of cells or tissue to look for fungal growth. This test can help your healthcare provider identify the specific type of fungus that is causing your infection.

Fungal infections in lungs, such as invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and cryptococcosis, can mimic cancer and confound diagnoses.

Combined with cutting-edge technology for sorting and culturing the legion cells in environmental samples, such methods could give a deeper view into the enigmatic world of dark fungi.