Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving its hyphae between cells in decaying animals, for example, or, in the case of some pathogenic species, invading plants ...

She easily captured many flies, but she also noticed something strange: Some of the dead flies at the bottom of ... Barrett will determine how the fungus affects the volume and the number of brain ...

In many cases, an antigen is a bacterium, fungus, virus, toxin, or foreign body. But it can also be a cell that is faulty or dead. The immune system detects pathogen-associated molecular patterns ...

And innies are ripe for colonization, not only by lint, hair, and dead skin cells, but also by bacteria. In one study, 60 volunteers swabbed their belly buttons. Researchers then analyzed the ...

While many fungi break down dead material in the soil ... the hyphae of the fungus access into its roots and even its cells.

While many fungi break down dead material in the soil ... symbiosis in which the plant allows the hyphae of the fungus access into its roots and even its cells. Over the course of evolution, it has ...