Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. If you found the famous HBO series The Last of Us to be a closer-to-reality depiction of how a zombie ...

A cancer-killing compound called rasfonin has been synthesized from a fungus for the first time. This fungus was discovered the walls of a New Zealand cave cave. A chemical found in this fungus ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO First recognized in 2009, Candida auris is a yeast (a fungus) that can lead to ...

Does this fungus pose a danger to humans? Glassman: It's not likely to affect humans, unless you consider the cascading impacts of killing off ... survival at human body temperature (37C), so ...

This fruiting body of the fungus showers spores on everything around ... bout of Athlete's foot or an infected toenail. Fungi kill around 1.7 million people a year - that's about three times ...

As maligned and feared as they are, bats actually are helpful partners to farmers because they eat around 40% of their body ... so when a fungus called white-nose syndrome spread throughout bat ...

A fungus - genetically enhanced to produce spider toxin - can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a study suggests. Trials, which took place in Burkina Faso ...

One genetically engineered species of microsporidia, another type of insect-killing fungus, for instance, can generate three times as many as the spores to those produced by nature species ...