In 2016, Benjamin Wolfe, a microbiome scientist at Tufts University, was scheming. He’d convinced his former advisor, Rachel ...

A fungal genomicist, Sam O’Donnell, described the new finding, which was observed during a marriage proposal, as a clear ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Many organisms have evolved to survive in some of the Earth’s harshest conditions, tolerating freezing temperatures, crushing pressures and other extremes. In studying these organisms, scientists ...

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They’ve provided treatments for a wide range of ...

A deadly superbug that sometimes claims the lives of more than a million people globally a year may have a nemesis that lives right under your nose. Quite literally. It dominates your skin microbiome, ...

Many fungus strains have been used and selected by the food industry for their capacities to ferment, produce flavors or produce heterologous molecules. According to a new study, 2 fungi used to ...