Fungal genomics is a scientific discipline that concerns the genome, encompassing the entire hereditary information, of fungi. Fungal genomics can, for example, be used to study fungal evolution ...

When the fungus has access to moisture and nutrients, it grows long, branching fungal chains throughout the soil. When the soil dries out, these chains fragment to form fungal spores, which can be ...

That's where a special nasal spray may come in, as it's been shown to prevent such illnesses (in mice) without the use of drugs. Respiratory viruses typically enter our body within droplets that ...

Royal Caribbean International’s Serenade of the Seas will return to Tampa two days late due to Hurricane Helene. Currently impacting the Gulf of Mexico region, the storm is expected to make landfall ...

Representative image of the human nasal cavity. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a nasal spray that could provide broad-spectrum protection against various respiratory ...

Fungal infections are evolving and becoming resistant to the medicines used to treat them, causing what some researchers are calling a "silent pandemic" that needs to be addressed urgently ...

Fungal Infections Silent Pandemic: While antibiotic resistance mostly concerns bacteria, a recent Lancet study urges focusing on fungal infections, which could become a ‘silent pandemic’. In the ...

Life-threatening fungal infections are on the rise in the United States. Their growth has been described as "alarming" by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC,) with one ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it had broadened the approval of the FluMist nasal spray to become the first "self-administered" influenza vaccine — though a delay in the ...

The best Halloween decorations sometimes come directly from nature. Intricate spider webs, enormous pumpkins, and a fungus that might stop you dead in your tracks. Commonly called dead man’s ...