Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary history. A rare fossil of Prototaxites, a 30-foot-tall fungus that lived ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria--such as how they synthesise their protective capsules--is essential for developing new ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

Best of all, they lend themselves well to the novice home chef, because they’re almost impossible to overcook. Not really.

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape also ...

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Sun exposure can help most people boost their vitamin D levels. Your body makes vitamin D when cells in your skin come into ...

Onda and Citribel announced the publication of new research highlighting the potential of fungi-derived feed ingredients to protect farmed salmon from harmful pathogens ...

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

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called "selfish ...

The club resumes its regular bi-weekly Monday meetings from 6-8 p.m. in the spring. To kick off the quarter, the student organization will host a screening of “Fantastic Fungi” in hopes that other ...