Researchers say they have been able to modify toxic fungus cells to fight cancer - specifically, leukaemia. The same mould ...

The cordyceps species in "The Last of Us," Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real and does exactly what the show purports —just ...

Candida, a type of fungus, can spread throughout the body via the bloodstream, leading to organ damage and sepsis. Recently, ...

Rainfall can have dramatic effects on the microbial communities living in urban lakes, a new paper published in the Journal ...

Analysis - In November 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter peered through a small hole into the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun ...

The researchers engineered a compound that kills leukemia cells with potency comparable to FDA-approved therapies by ...

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.

The highly toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus, known for its yellow spores and associated with legends like the curse of ...

The mystery deepened in the 1970s when a team of scientists entered the tomb of Polish king Casimir IV. Within weeks, 10 out ...

A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...

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