A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA shows that conglomerations of fungi and bacteria can work together to “walk” and “leap” across the surface ...

These bacteria have a natural endosymbiotic relationship with some strains of this fungi, but the researchers used a strain that does not have that natural connection. After the bacteria entered the ...

The bacteria and fungi that live in and around cancers may ... Bacteria found in some types of breast cancer, for example, can detoxify arsenate, a type of carcinogen known to increase the risk ...

What spoils our crops, kills about six times more people than malaria every year and is breathed in by each of us every single day? It’s not a virus or bacteria, but something even more formidable: ...

For example, some of the microbes carried drug ... In Petri dishes, some of the bacteria and fungi collected in the air samples grew into colonies, indicating that they were viable.

So far, over 400 species of fungi and bacteria have been found to degrade ... used in the production of polyurethanes. A well-known example of a plastic-eating bacterium is Ideonella sakaiensis ...