And the cycle starts all over. The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae—Entomophthora ...

The oldest disease-causing fungus ever found has been discovered within a museum's fossil collections. Estimated to be 407 million years old, the newfound fungal plant pathogen, named Potteromyces ...

And the cycle starts all over. Discovered more than 160 years ago, the fungus’s actions are as mind-boggling as they are macabre. Scientists have long wondered: How does the fungus manage to ...

Fungi are heterotrophic, meaning that they cannot make their own food. They must therefore obtain energy from other sources. In order to do this, fungi can be saprobic, parasitic or mutualistic.

Scientists from the University of Nottingham's School of Pharmacy have been studying how a parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars could work as a potential treatment for a range of diseases ...

Root parasitic plants cause as much as US$10 billion ... act as a signal to induce symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, a microorganism that helps uptake nutrients such as phosphorus ...

Scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy have been studying how a parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars could work as a potential treatment for a range of diseases ...

A type of fungus which grows on caterpillars can slow down growth of cancer cells, new research has found. Cordycepin, a chemical produced by a parasitic fungus that infects the animals ...