Researchers describe the first trial outside the laboratory of a transgenic approach to combating malaria. The study shows that a naturally occurring fungus engineered to deliver a toxin to mosquitoes …read more Source:: Science
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How a fungus can cripple the immune system
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•Scientists have now discovered how the fungus knocks out the immune defenses, enabling a potentially fatal fungal infection to develop. …read more Source:: Science
Lethal fungus that causes white-nose syndrome may have an Achilles’ heel
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•In the course of genomic analyses of the fungus behind white-nose-syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed millions of bats in North America, US Forest Service scientists discovered something very …read more Source:: Science
Wondrous fungus: fossils are oldest of any land-dwelling organism
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At first glance, they do not look like much: tiny fragments of a primordial fungus shorter than a single hair’s width. But these fungal remnants possess the …read more Source:: UKScienceNews