A child’s introduction to the classification of plants and animals—alongside fungi, protists, bacteria and other living ...

Scientists used genes from unicellular protists to reprogram mouse cells into stem cells. These cells developed into a living ...

The team used these newly generated stem cells to help form a living, breathing mouse from a developing embryo.

the lessons we learn from this amazing fungi could inspire innovation in a wide range of fields, and in the process, understanding the boundaries of life itself. Species like Cladosporium ...

They're unicelllular, but don't belong to the domain of bacteria. In fact, protists are any 'eukaryotes' - as biologists call organisms whose cells have a nucleus containing their DNA - which aren't ...

It is more common in the toenails because fungi thrive in warm, moist environments like your shoes. You may have this infection if you notice symptoms like brittle and discolored nails.

Review by Tunku Varadarajan Read the review The polymathic American polemicist, inventor and diplomat was also a scientist ...

Those details are like fodder for a horror movie. After the fungus infects the fly, it doesn’t go straight to the vital organs but starts consuming fats and other nutrients first, gradually ...

A species of wood-eating fungus didn’t need a brain to pass a ... that consciousness is necessary for cognitive abilities like decision-making and memory. “Our result on fungal intelligence ...

The commonest way is a bloodstream driven spread of the fungal infection from another site like the lungs ... However, the presence of fungi in urine does not always indicate a fungal infection.

New research into a chemical produced by a caterpillar fungus that has shown promise as a possible cancer treatment has revealed how it interacts with genes to interrupt cell growth signals.