An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has identified a new class ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive look at how your stomach acid handles different types of fungi and when an accidental bite of fuzzy food becomes a medical emergency.

Every animal carries a microscopic community of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes that play a critical role in health. These gut microbes help regulate the immune system, support digestion, and even ...

Potting soil, or potting mix, is a substrate that usually consists of garden soil, organic matter and minerals.

Abstract: The prevention of vision loss or irreversible blindness hinges on early and accurate detection of Fungal Keratitis (FK). Traditional FK diagnostic methods are expensive and labor-intensive, ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

Fungal infections pose a grave threat to individuals with compromised immune systems, and the accelerated proliferation of drug-resistant strains has led to a marked decline in the effectiveness of ...

The phylogeny of orchid species (left) and fungal OTUs (right) are mapped with the presence of symbiotic associations (links). The links are colored by trophic mode of orchid species: autotrophy (AU) ...

Hello, I was finally able to run kraken2 with GTDB and NCBI fungal genome database however I ran this process separately due to RAM issues. Now, the issue is I want to combine kraken2 reports from ...

At a coastal site in the North West Mediterranean Sea, marine fungal populations show unpredictable, short-term bursts, unlike other ocean microbes These rapid fungal blooms are mostly caused by a few ...