By Samantha Lee In recent years, we’re learning more about how fungi work, what they can do, and how they can help mitigate ...

Researchers found that specific DNA segments in the malaria parasite trigger gene silencing, uncovering inherent control ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

When left out on the counter for too long, a loaf of bread grows mold. That mold is a common type of filamentous fungi, a ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two ...

fungi and bacteria (Smithsonian, July 1991). Slime molds are like nothing else on earth. In their plasmodium stage, they show a quality that could be called intelligence: chopped up and dropped ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Some 279 fungi species face extinction due to land use change for farming and urbanization, while another 91 species are at risk from ...

mRNA is a genetic molecule occurring in multicellular organisms, including plants, animals and fungi. It acts as a ... where the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite travels after it enters the ...

Marine fungi, thriving in ocean environments, account for 5% of total ocean biomass but most are microscopic. Researchers have limited understanding of their diversity and importance. There are ...

Plasmodium falciparum; malaria ... In mammals, plants (cytoplasm), fungi, some bacteria and several protozoa, the isoprenic units are derived from the classical mevalonate pathway (Goldstein & Brown ...

Michael Cunliffe received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project MYCO-CARB and currently receives funding from the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme for the projects ...