A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of venomous snakes, scorpions and spiders, according to researchers at Loma ...

There's an arms race in medicine -- scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the researchers back to square one.

Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even beneficial. Previous studies of endophytic fungi living ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... the resulting large-scale mycelial architecture 9. Nitrogen-hungry bacteria added to farm soil curb greenhouse-gas emissions Perhaps the most ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do ... water safe to drink by killing bacteria. “In those early gatherings ...

A study by Padma Shri awardee Dr. Ajay Sonkar has claimed the Ganga’s self-cleaning mechanism eliminates bacteria 50 times faster than other rivers. While experts dispute this, the BJP and the ...

Antibiotics are chemicals produced by fungi that kill or prevent the growth of bacteria. Penicillin was the first antibiotic to be discovered. In the 1940s, two scientists, Florey and Chain ...

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But scientists at the University of Hawaii have found a possible solution - marine fungi. Researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) in Mānoa believe it is a “promising and largely untapped ...