In rural India, mycetoma—a painful, neglected disease from minor wounds—cripples workers, causing disability, poverty, and stigma. Delayed diagnosis and costly treatment worsen the crisis.

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The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd ...

It doesn’t look like much from the surface - but beneath the forest floor lies a living organism larger than any animal on ...

The fungus Entomophthora muscae turns flies into zombies and kills them at sunset. An internal kill clock may explain the mysterious timing.

A research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has uncovered a new way in which the yeast Candida albicans can damage human ...

Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old zombie fungus preserved in amber, giving us a glimpse into ancient times.

To separate geometry from chemistry, we converted snapshots from the microscope into a computer model using a 3D Voronoi network – a pattern that mimics the walls between bubbles in a foam. Think of ...

Lac insects carry a yeast-like symbiont that produces a commercially important bright red pigment, revealing insights about ...

Health clinics that serve more than 1.1 million patients up and down the San Joaquin Valley are bracing for the prospect of budget cuts and other fallout in the wake of the passage of President Donald ...

Scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, (red, round) killing and escaping from a human immune cell. | NIH NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS ...