A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. The paper published in PLOS ...

This discovery opens up perspectives on the mechanisms by which fungal infections could influence the human brain.

The fungus is spread through tiny spores in the ground that may be whipped up by harsh winds. Weakened by brain damage and unable to walk on her own after coming out of the coma, Roselia began ...

Previous work showed that titan cells promote fungal pathogenicity, but these were predominantly found in the lung. 3 “Their very early on infection in the upper airway put them in very close ...

Mucormycosis or ‘black fungus’, is a fungal infection affecting the sinuses, lungs, brain, and skin. The fungal infection is ...

To determine how her fungus hijacked the fly brain, Elya and her colleagues screened hundreds of flies in which the functions of specific neurons or specific genes were disrupted and measured how this ...

A parasitic fungus illness known as Cordyceps brain infection (abbreviated CBI) causes an epidemic that transforms human ...

Over the past 15 years, at least six separate clinical trials have reported dramatic improvements in depressive symptoms with therapy with psilocybin, a fungus ... and had brain scans taken ...

The two are dependent trade partners. These fungi make uncannily smart choices, even without a brain or central nervous system. Scientists describe them as “living algorithms.” The trade ...

While The Last of Us‘ Runners don’t possess any extra strength, their pain threshold is greater due, again, to fungus brain. (The answer to most questions of “Why can they do that?” ...