Gland, Switzerland, 27 March 2025 (IUCN) – The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban ...

An 1870 watercolor of Agaricus rubescens Fr., by Mary Elizabeth Banning, a self-taught mycologist who studied fungi in her home state of Maryland for four decades.Credit...New York State Museum ...

Itaconate is a unique regulatory metabolite induced by toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation in myeloid cells. Endogenous itaconate is a key regulator of signaling 2 activated by NOD-Like Receptor ...

As fungi resistant to traditional treatments continue to spread around the globe, researchers from China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing have identified a bacterial compound that can kill ...

Bacteria have evolved to produce natural products that can kill fungi, and these products have been used to develop antifungal drugs for humans. However, resistance is widespread and conventional ...

A bacterium makes a molecule that kills drug-resistant fungi in an unusual way — by targeting various phospholipid molecules in membranes. Read the paper: A polyene macrolide targeting ...

The immune response plays a vital role in the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). As a crucial component of the innate immune system, neutrophils are involved in the initial inflammatory ...

Université du Québec provides funding as a partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...