Mycorrhizal fungi, which encompass thousands of species, can form large, underground networks, connected by branching filaments called hyphae, threading through the soil in every direction. One type ...

A team of scientists has discovered that an ancient medicinal clay known as Lemnian earth (LE) could inspire new ...

"These drug-producing organisms do not make all the drugs they can make," said study leader Clay Wang, ... Scientists frequently study A. nidulans as a model for understanding other fungi.

These fungi may have been added to the clay accidentally, and subsequently, ... A model for the preparation and efficacy of historical Lemnian Earth. PLOS One, 19(12), ...

A joint experiment by NASA and the University of Southern California that will send fungi to space could change the way medicine is produced, both here on Earth and on long distance journeys across… ...

For decades, mining companies unearthed uranium in the American Southwest. Today, the remnants of those mines pepper the landscape, especially in the Navajo Nation, in northeast Arizona. Mine tailings ...

BRATTLEBORO — It’s been a championship year for mycologists and wild mushroom epicureans, with abundant harvests of varieties such as chicken of the woods, oyster, lion’s mane and even the elusive ...