Mandimycin, which targets a different essential fungi cell resource than other antifungal drugs, should harm other cell types as collateral — but doesn’t.

Lost Cousins Of Animals? Turns out, mushrooms might just be the undercover introverts of the animal kingdom — quietly hanging out with plants, but secretly vibing with us!

Read the paper: A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane The human battle ... glycosyl groups as part of its chemical structure. By contrast, other antifungals ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Antifungal drugs target molecules in the fungal cell wall, a flexible but rigid outer layer that provides the cell protection. By rupturing the protective structure, the drugs kill the fungal cell ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Scientists found that plants, fungi, and microbes use venom-like methods to protect themselves, attack rivals, or survive.

The number of people experiencing chronic nail fungus is increasing day by day in the entire world. The Okita Nail Fungus ...

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day. In a new, not yet peer-reviewed paper, scientists from the University of Edinburgh in ...

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...