Crestone, Inc. ("Crestone") today announced recent publication in the leading infectious disease journal, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, of positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating ...

Truffles, which come in many guises, not just those regarded as delicacies by humans, are the fruiting bodies of fungi—the underground equivalents of mushrooms. Unlike mushrooms, however, they cannot ...

HAS THE festive season left you feeling enervated? Consume Cordyceps to perk up or reishi to feel calm. Looking to get fitter? Eat maitake for heart health or shiitake to lower your cholesterol. Do ...

Air carries more than dust and pollen – it carries a biological archive. For decades, tiny moss spores drifted across northern skies, quietly capturing how seasons shifted as the climate warmed.

In an extraordinary display of biological resilience, moss spores survived for nine months outside the International Space Station. The spores were then returned to Earth, where 86 percent germinated ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Bacterial spores—the hardy survival structures formed by certain bacterial species—are proving to be a game changer in the field of engineered living materials (ELMs). By embedding Bacillus spores ...

Marian Spore Bush, "The Gaunt Bird of Famine" (1933), oil on canvas (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) “Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the ...

Evolutionary bioenergetics examines how energetic constraints influence the origin, maintenance, and evolution of cellular components and organismal traits. It takes a bottom–up approach to ...

Composed of living fungal matter. Scatters spores when exposed to Soul. When focusing Soul, emit a spore cloud that slowly damages enemies. Using Soul to heal releases a cloud of spores that damage ...