Microscopic fungus may have more to do with oral cancer and aging than first thought, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University. Pushpa Pandiyan, an associate professor of ...

Scientists have identified a marine fungus that was previously unknown and is capable of killing toxic algae known to ...

Scientists identify a new marine fungus that attacks toxic algae, offering insight into natural controls on blooms that ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Agricultural Research Service scientists are leaving no stone—or rather, leaf—unturned in their search for new ways to counter the fungus that causes tar spot, a yield-robbing disease of field corn in ...

Alien life might survive “uninhabitable” environments by simply changing them, suggests a recent study of — bizarrely enough — a fungus that grows on book covers in climate-controlled libraries. “Life ...