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06 Apr 2022

After Covid-19, will Fungi be the source of our next pandemic - Read report

This is a report by the University of California, Irvine in California. COVID-19 raised international awareness of the threats posed by zoonotic viruses, which jump from animals to humans.

29 Jul 2019

100mn bacteria a day will keep the doctor away

The bacteria, fungi and viruses in our food transiently colonise our gut, but cooking kills most of these, so raw fruit and vegetable are particularly important sources of gut microbes.

19 Dec 2017

Life on Earth would have been impossible without fungi, says study

The amount of phosphorus transferred could have been very large under the ancient atmospheric conditions, but fungi had the power to dramatically alter the ancient atmosphere, the researchers said.

11 Jul 2017

NASA plans to fight fungus to keep space travellers safe

Human presence in closed habitats is associated with changes in the composition of the fungal community -- the mycobiome -- that grows on surfaces inside the habitat, according to a study published in the journal Microbiome.

26 Jun 2017

Sick building syndrome: Fungal toxins in your house can make you ill

Accoding to a group of researchers, there are three types of fungus that can grow on ordinary household wallpaper and spread into the air, leading to serious health consequences.

14 Jun 2017

Cancer is a fungus that can be eliminated with baking soda, claims Italian doctor

According to this Italian doctor, cancer is nothing but a fungus which can be eliminated with baking soda.

22 Aug 2016

Fungi show green way to recycle batteries

Cunningham's team is developing the environmentally-safe way to do this with organisms found in nature -- fungi in this case -- and putting them in an environment where they can do their work.

17 Aug 2016

How plants know whether it is day or night

The findings have implications both for improving crop yield and also in engineering artificial proteins that can be used to release drugs at specific spots in our body to treat cancer cells.

12 Jul 2016

Breakthrough in AIDS treatment? Austrian researchers find potential remedy for terrible immune disease!

The research is based on a substance known as resveratrol, that occurs naturally in grapes as a means of defence against fungi and bacteria.

Fungal infections

05 Jul 2016

Fungal infections 'threat' to human health, warn scientists

More than one million people die from fungal infections around the world each year, but, there are no vaccines yet.

29 Jan 2016

Antarctic fungi may survive Martian conditions

The quest for life on Mars is as tantalizing as ever and now, an experiment conducted on the International Space Station has suggested that fungi and lichens may be able to survive on Mars.

25 Sep 2015

Fungi may lead to cheaper cancer drug

An anti-cancer substance which is already known to be found in yew trees can also be derived from a kind of microbial "bandage" that protects these trees from disease-causing fungi.

19 Sep 2015

Connecting dots with `tree of life` for 2.3 million species

A first draft of the "tree of life" for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes has been released.

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