An international team of researchers has learned more about how a stingless bee relies on several different fungi to survive. Building on previous work, they’ve shown that larvae of Scaptotrigona ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. In a study published at the end of 2018, scientists used vast amounts of ...

Gut bacteria tend to seize the spotlight in conversations about gut health. It’s known changes in gut bacteria influence wellness, and probiotics are meant to help the “good” bacteria. But other ...

Some stringy fungi are tough negotiators, trading nutrients shrewdly with plants. An advance in tracking the nutrient phosphorus has revealed new details of ancient trading networks between fungi and ...

Scientists have identified a virus that can weaken the ability of a fungus to avoid pairing with other incompatible fungi, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens. By promoting fungal ...

Sept. 29 (UPI) --Fungi are commonly present in human tumors, and may someday be used as a tool to detect, diagnose and even treat cancer. That's according to an international team of scientists, which ...

A watercolor artist’s interpretation of the relationship between the human genome and gut mycobiome. Created by Amy Bean, watercolor journalist and mom of first author Emily Van Syoc. Clinicians’ ...

Genomic sequencing tools have enabled researchers to study microbial communities that are everywhere in our world, even our bodies. The interactions between bacteria and other bacteria, and bacteria ...

Scientists have created the first pan-cancer mycobiome atlas -- a survey of 35 types of cancer and their associated fungi. An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University ...