Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can ...

For this work, Gabriel Giger, a doctoral student in Vorholt's laboratory, first developed a method to inject bacteria into cells of the fungus Rhizopus microsporus without destroying them.

Problem fungi Spore-forming, environmentally ubiquitous molds (e.g., Aspergillus and Rhizopus spp.) that cause opportunistic mucormycoses and disease in humans (immunocompromised and ...