“It will just eat what you give it and it will not start using the ionising radiation – we tested that many times. But if the fungus finds itself in nutrient-deficient conditions – for example, right ...

A week ago I noticed one of those beautiful red toadstools in our garden – the classic red fungus with white dots all over the skin. Amanita muscaria or Fly agaric – there are a few different ...

Galen Rowell / Corbis Since there are 100,000 known fungus species, it might not seem all that remarkable that Robert Blanchette may have discovered three new ones. But he found the fungi where no ...

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Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy has a proven survival benefit for patients undergoing upfront resection of gastric cancer compared with surgery alone. Now, data from the TOPGEAR trial demonstrate that ...

Artificial intelligence and phylogenetics helped scientists revise the evolutionary timeline of bacteria.

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A trial of people who wore dentures determined that supplementing with probiotics decreased fungus levels and may impede thrush development. Taking probiotics along with the antifungal medicine ...