Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

A bacterium makes a molecule that kills drug-resistant fungi in an unusual way — by targeting various phospholipid molecules ...

Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth ... arise naturally from ...

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Tulane University researchers have developed a CRISPR-based test that diagnoses Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP)—a life-threatening fungal infection primarily affecting children and ...

Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast ... another world exists—the kingdom of fungi.

It never matters where nail fungus started, it only matters that you have a snowball’s chance of ridding yourself of it. At one point in my life, all ten toenails succumbed to the horrid fungus. Other ...

A concept embodied in stages of production, use, reproduction and burial, which suggest cycles of birth, life and death, and contemplated from the perspective of women, the main users of these ...