Tag: fungi

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs ...

A widely used disinfectant worldwide, chloroxylenol, has been associated with eco-toxicological threats in water environments due to its relatively high ...

This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its ...

Corn, a staple food crop consumed by billions of people and animals worldwide, is frequently contaminated by the fungal toxin ...

Emory researcher David Weiss has spent years studying a baffling phenomenon called heteroresistance, in which a tiny fraction of bacteria ...

As the days heat up and we head into the Summer, many of us suddenly seem to remember that the ...

A recent study published in Current Developments in Nutrition investigated the effects of a functional bread fermented with yeast (Saccharomyces ...

University of B.C. researchers have uncovered startling connections between micronutrient deficiencies and the composition of gut microbiomes in early life ...

A recent review published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology explores how the oral microbiome develops in infants, focusing on ...

What makes people interested in fungi-based food as an alternative to other protein sources such as meat? A new doctoral ...