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  • New Methods for Fighting White-Nose Syndrome in Bats

    Published on November 10, 2018
    White-Nose Syndrome, caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) is a devasting disease which has killed millions of hibernating bats in North America.

  • Mushroom-Algae Solar Cells

    Published on November 10, 2018
    In the field, it is not unusual to encounter fungi with a diverse microbiota on their caps, which sometime includes the green stains of algae. EurekAlert reported this week on an article published in Nano Letters.

  • Follow your nose to where the diseases grow!

    Published on November 6, 2018
    There is a new weapon in the fight against the fungal disease killing native trees in Hawaiʻi.

  • Frog communities coexist with deadly chytrid fungus and are recovering

    Published on October 30, 2018
    In 2004 a deadly chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, killed frogs in Panama by the thousands.

  • Medicinal Caterpillar Fungus Endangered

    Published on October 30, 2018
    The caterpillar fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis, is a close relative of more well known “zombie-ant” fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.

  • First Genetic Profile of an Aspergillus Section

    Published on October 29, 2018
    A team of scientists out of the Technical University of Denmark presented the first sequence analysis of a fungal subgroup of Aspergillus.

  • Astonishing plastic degrading fungus is discovered amidst garbage dump!

    Published on October 24, 2018
    Researcher, To Sehroon Khan, and his team from China went sampling in Pakistan in 2017. Instead of going to some untouched natural area, they went…(yes, that’s right!) to explore garbage dumps!

  • Mushrooms as vitamins

    Published on October 24, 2018
    Vitamin D is an important nutrient to humans, where deficiencies result in diseases like rickets and other bone deficiencies.

  • Honeybees gain viral protection from eating polypore extracts

    Published on October 16, 2018
    Paul Stamets of Washington State University and colleagues tested whether diet supplementation of a sugar solution or extracts of the fungi Fomes fomentarius and Ganoderma resinaceum.

  • Lager yeast getting a documentary

    Published on October 8, 2018
    In the world of beer brewing, yeast is one of the most important ingredients, and greatly influences the taste.

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