Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB-FORTH) and the University of Crete, together with ...

Our bodies host a variety of microorganisms, and the microbial communities in and on our bodies have to maintain the right balances among their members, or problems can arise. This includes the ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health into the US last summer in a wad of ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Fungi and animals, including humans, have a lot in common when it comes to the arrangement of genes that determine their sex, according to new work by Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

A UC Davis study finds that dogs could be indicators for Valley fever spread in humans. (Credit: Dr. William Zachary Mills DVM, MPH, MBA) Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is caused by a fungus ...