Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

Fungus can do a lot for us — make bread, make beer and cure infections, in the case of penicillin. But when the fungus infects us, well, that’s not nearly as much fun as beer. From your head to your ...

Candida auris and Candida albicans are microscopic fungi that cause life-threatening human infections, killing almost a ...

Black fungi and snow fungi are common edible fungi that are rich in nutrients. The Consumer Council of Hong Kong tested 28 samples of pre-packaged dried edible fungus, including black fungus, white ...

Three types of fungi that cause serious lung infections and were once thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States are now widespread. Medicare records from 2007 through 2016 show ...

Researchers are warning doctors and the public about two emerging fungi that are stranger and hardier than the typical ringworm infection. Reading time 4 minutes Dermatologists are sounding the alarm ...

In a recent article published in the journal Cell, researchers found fungal deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and cells at low abundances across many human cancers, with cancer type-dependent variations in ...

Three types of fungi that cause serious lung infections and were once thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States are now widespread. In 1955, Histoplasma fungi grew mainly in ...