The fungus has another unusual means of spread: Cats can sneeze out infectious yeast, researchers reported in Medical Mycology in 2022. “When the cat’s sneezing, it’s going on the surface, it’s going ...
At a conference earlier this month, Shawn Lockhart, PhD, director of the Fungal Reference Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented the case of a Sporothrix ...
Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 in the journal PLOS Biology ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome — known ...
University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent antimicrobial properties against a pathogen responsible for a half-million ...
Fighting fungi isn’t easy. Season two of the streaming series The Last of Us has arrived on Max (light spoilers ahead), bringing viewers back to a world where people combat zombies puppeteered by a ...
The problem is sufficient for NASA to grant $750,000 funding to the University of Colorado in Boulder to study the current situation and future risks. It’s a pretty daunting type of study, involving ...
Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...
Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...