Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet heats up, new research predicts — and the world is not prepared. Fungi are ...

The setup for The Last of Us video game and TV series involves a fungus that evolves due to climate change to infect swathes of the human population, turning people into killer zombies – and at least ...

A virus found lurking inside a deadly fungus may make the microbe even stronger and harder to kill when it infects people.

As global temperatures rise, a new study warns that Aspergillus—a common fungus capable of causing deadly infections—is set to expand its reach into new regions, putting millions more people at risk.

Research has found a black mold has been growing toward and surviving on the ionizing radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

Using 94 isolates of Aspergillus flavus, a cosmopolitan model fungus, sampled from seven states in the United States, we dereplicate 7,821 BGCs into 92 unique BGCs. We find that more than 25% of ...