Life in the Greenhouse Promises Health for Sick Frogs
Providing frogs with a warm, sunlit artificial shelter is enough to intervene in fungal disease and prevent future infection.
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Intestinal Fungi May Protect Us from Fungal Infections
A link is found between the fungal population in a human’s gut and the immune system’s response to fungal infections. This sheds light on potential preventative treatments against these dangerous fungal infections.
Zombie Fungus Cannon Sheds Insight into Fungus Reproduction
A team of European researchers builds a zombie fungus cannon to understand how the fungus spreads its spores.
The war on malaria gets a new weapon: a toxic fungus
As mosquitoes develop resistance to insecticides used to control their populations, scientists have been developing new tools. The latest idea: infecting mosquitoes with a fungus genetically engineered to produce arachnid toxins. After infecting the…