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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 ...

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

Bengaluru: The red lac pigment, long thought to be made by insects, may actually originate from a yeast-like fungus living ...

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