A new multi-institutional study led by researchers at Michigan State University has characterized how fungi adapt to restructure their cell walls, effectively thwarting current antifungal medications.

The scientists say the fungal ... Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive ...

A similar process occurs in human patients during interactions between the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and human immune cells. 'We found that the beneficial root fungus Serendipita ...

Fungi grow by releasing spores that turn into ... “When we look at the level of the individual cells, it’s not like human cells are any more complicated than the cells of any other organism ...

The fungus that causes the disease uses the peptide to activate an immune receptor in the plant. The affected cells then die. Barley is one of the world's most important grain crops with 155 ...

They noted that filamentous fungi induced by higher temperatures retained more introns ... They observed that while elevated temperatures increased intron retention in wild type cells, the mutant ...

Caterpillar fungus has been used as a medicine and is a delicacy in parts of Asia A type of fungus that grows on caterpillars can slow down growth of cancer cells, new research has found.

A fungus discovered in the mouse stomach may hold a key to fungal evolution within the gastrointestinal tract, according to new research led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The finding ...