Several new species of fungus have been found lurking in waterways, and they might be harmful to humans. The new species were discovered in the sediment of riverbeds across Spain. Many are closely ...

image: A forest plot in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve in Zhejiang Province, China. Researchers from the University of Maryland and the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the type of ...

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...

Neeraj Chauhan, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Center for Discovery and Innovation at Hackensack Meridian Health, explained the mechanisms behind antifungal resistance in Candida auris (C. auris ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the threat posed by fungal pathogens in a new report, which is calling for increased attention to the problem. Nineteen fungi have been listed as ...

If there are many trees of a given species in a tract of forest, a new tree of that same species has a harder time thriving in the same area. This “rare-species advantage” produces diversity in ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester have forecast there will be an increased risk of infection from fungi over the coming years, including a significant spread of some fungal pathogens ...

A study shows how extracellular vesicles share information among cells in the same species, enabling the colony to respond in a coordinated manner to the host organism’s defenses. C. albicans seen ...

Antibiotic resistance is a matter of common knowledge. And the same phenomenon also occurs with drugs against pathogenic fungi. What causes it is still not very well understood. An international ...