Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...

Grapevine diseases like white rot pose growing threats to global viticulture, leading to major yield losses and economic ...

A student at WVU identified a fungus in morning glories that makes LSD-related compounds. Named Periglandula clandestina, it may advance research in medicine and psychedelics. A West Virginia Universi ...

Scientists at IISc found that the red lac pigment, earlier thought to come from insects, may actually be made by a fungus ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

The Southern Corroboree frog is almost extinct in its natural habitat of Kosciuszcko, due to the chytridiomycosis fungus, and ...