From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society, and are used for numerous ...

Although classified as vegetables in the culinary world, mushrooms are fungi, not plants, and impart a rich, savoury depth to ...

Bacteria exposed to microplastics can become resistant to antibiotics, a new study has found. Researchers from the US ...

Though fungi make up a tiny part of the human microbiome, they play an important role in both the prevention and development of many diseases.

Turning silver nanoparticles into commercial products could create a faster pathway to new antimicrobials and cancer treatments.

High-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detection (HPLC-DAD) was tested for detecting antibiotic residues in environmental samples.

“Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ... one hundred years ago that Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin — from a fungus called Penicillium — that we used to combat ...

Nico De Napoli, 13 of Coarsegold holds up a mushroom he found that remarkably matches his shirt (minus the toad) while hunting for mushrooms on a Sierra Foothill Conservancy mycology hike on the ...

and provide scientists with source materials for antibiotics. “Without fungi we’d literally have nothing living around us right now. We’d be miles and miles deep in dead organic matter ...

Searching for freshwater fungi in the Sierra Madre Oriental was ... another high-priority pathogen resistant to antibiotics. Now that the researchers have discovered the metabolites ...