But here you can see a network of soil fungus, with a reproductive spore at the center of the image. Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how a fungus reproduces, let alone about what ...

Some fungal diseases in humans no longer respond to medicines, which increases the risk of severe illness and death as well ...

at 150° C.), one of the slips of paper is transferred to a sterile Petri dish and a small mass of conidia or spores is placed on the unpunched end of the paper. Using the end of a glass rod ...

When most people think of dangerous infections, they picture bacteria or viruses. But for infectious disease specialists like ...

A small amount of glittering spore powder left behind by Floating Fungi. Seems that a sneeze is all it takes for this powder to vanish without a trace. Powered by The Fungal Spores is a One Star ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

A special enzyme on the surface of the fungal spores—glycosylasparaginase—apparently suppresses the release of ...

Most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so the quality of the air we breathe is important. Concerns about health issues, most commonly allergic reactions from inhaling fungal spores, ...

compared to days without thunderstorms (n = 919 days), daily asthma visits increased from 8.6 to 10 (p < 0.05), and air concentrations of fungal spores doubled (from 1,512 to 2,749/m 3), with ...

Mycoses often start in the lungs following inhalation of fungal spores or on the skin due to localized colonization.