It’s that time of year, when families and friends come together to share their holiday cheer and a few circulating pathogens. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San ...

Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. With COVID in ...

A species of black fungus at the site of the Chernoyl disaster has mutated to 'feed' on nuclear radiation that would be lethal to most life forms. In the early hours of April 26, 1986, one of the most ...

After quality controls, they had 306 samples to work with. The most common families of fungi across all samples were Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. In these two families, 14 genera dominated the ...

Nail fungus is a frustratingly common ailment — about 10% of people are expected to get it at some point in their lives — and it can be tough to address because medications have to penetrate ...