"This is nature's irony at its finest... The same fungus once feared for bringing death may now help save lives." Not long ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Associated with the infamous King Tut's curse, a deadly spore may now be turned into a potent leukemia treatment.

Together, the studies provide a “nice, rigorous association” between fungi and cancer, said Ami Bhatt, an associate professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford University who did not work ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years.

The Last of Us, eat your heart out. Scientists at the University of Georgia say they’ve developed a vaccine that should be able to protect against a variety of dangerous fungi. In animal studies ...

After millennia of eating mushrooms, humans are unlocking new ways to take advantage of fungi from the power of fungi in medicine to environmental solutions. By Gabe Allen. Nov 28, 2023 2:00 PM ...

A new superbug threat is spreading around the world. The culprit: microscopic fungal spores that live in and on human bodies and in the dirt and air. Torrence Irvin believes the life-threatening ...

Read at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Section of Dermatology and Syphilology, Springfield, June 8, 1936. Swartz, J. H. — Assistant Dermatologist, Massachusetts General ...