Steven Weersing survived both the Joplin tornado and the potentially fatal fungus that spread among survivors — now he's ...

Newsweek has created a map showing where in the U.S. cases of Candida auris have been reported. Candida auris (C. auris) is a ...

A deadly fungal epidemic in Brazil is evolving fast: pollution, cats, and genetics may be fueling its unstoppable spread.

Alarm has been raised about a dangerous fungus called Candida auris, which has previously been classified as an "urgent ...

Fungal infections are on the rise globally. According to a study by the Manchester Fungal Infection Group, in 2022, ...

Nearly a third of fungi species assessed by international conservation experts were found to be at risk of extinction from ...

As a result, Ibrahim and Gu developed an antibody called VX-01, a humanized antibody that has proven more effective at ...

The study demonstrates that this RNAi approach shuts down vital fungal genes, thereby inhibiting pathogen growth - a ...

Thousands of years ago, humans brewed beer not to party, but because yeast — a single-celled fungus — made potentially contaminated water safe to drink by killing bacteria. “In those early ...

A new study published in Mycology highlights the alarming evolutionary rate of Sporothrix, the fungus that causes ...

may be human-driven climate change — and they warn that a much larger area of the United States will become vulnerable to the disease in the decades to come. The fungus thrives in dry soils ...