In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

It is now considered one of the most dangerous fungal pathogens on Earth. In this excerpt from "What if Fungi Win ... an obscure unknown yeast in most parts of the planet — until it was ...

Laila Partida-Martinez and Christian Hertweck of the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany, demonstrated that rhizoxin, a plant-rotting toxin believed to ...

auris and other fungi. Annual deaths caused by fungal infections have nearly doubled in the past decade. Understanding pathogen emergence through the lens of Candida auris Pathogenic fungi pose ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.

According to a study by the Manchester Fungal Infection Group, in 2022, approximately 6.5 million people were infected by a pathogenic fungus, and about 3.8 million died as a result – nearly twice as ...