Autoimmune diseases are a pathophysiological state wherein immune responses are directed against, and damage, the body's own tissues (autoimmunity). Common examples of autoimmune disease include ...

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 ...

and of course a steady stream of smut from Clary who can rarely get through a scene without mentioning the back passages. Oh, and the ventriloquist Paul Zerdin and his sidekick dummy Sam ...

At least two of Clary’s costumes are exclusively in the service of a dodgy joke: he fleetingly dons an owl costume solely to make a gag about chewing fat balls, and briefly appears as a toadstool in ...

In disease resistance, HTP has been successfully utilized to identify and quantify the symptoms of various foliar diseases. Multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensing, 3D scanning, fluorescence imaging, ...

Hubei Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China ...

Tilletia Tritici and T. laevis are fungi which cause the well-known stinking smut disease or bunt of wheat. An affected wheat grain becomes transformed into a sack filled with several million ...