Collaborate Disseminate
While most microbiome scientists focus on gut bacteria, a new school of research is starting to look at how the communities of fungus in our bodies, called the mycobiome, can influence our metabolic health. A newly published animal study suggests funga… Continue reading It’s not just gut bacteria, our fungal mycobiome can also affect health
Infections of Cryptococcus fungi are potentially fatal, because the immune system has a hard time fighting off the invaders. But in a new study, researchers have given it a helping hand, by adapting a cancer immunotherapy technique called CAR T cell th… Continue reading Cancer immunotherapy adapted to fight dangerous fungal infections
Fungus already shows promise as a “green” form of leather and protective packaging. Thanks to new research, it has now also found use in an environmentally-friendly sound-absorbing material.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Fraunhofer… Continue reading Fungus put to use in eco-friendly soundproofing material
A new review article, from an international team of material scientists, is suggesting a leather-like material made from mushroom-derived biomass has the potential to be cheaper and more environmentally sustainable than animal leather or its plastic de… Continue reading Study makes case for mushroom leather as greener, ethical alternative
Powdery mildew is a widespread fungal disease that attacks many crops. And while it typically has to be treated using fungicides, special ultraviolet light-emitting robots could soon prove to be a better way to go.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Te… Continue reading UV-emitting robots roam vineyards to kill fungus
A newly discovered microbe identified in wild mosquito populations in Kenya has been found to protect the insects from malaria infection. It’s hypothesized the microbe could be recruited for malaria control strategies to limit transmission of the disea… Continue reading Newly discovered parasitic fungus blocks malaria infecting mosquitoes
Mold spores commonly found aboard the International Space Station (ISS) turn out to be radiation resistant enough to survive 200 times the X-ray dose needed to kill a human being. Based on experiments by a team of researchers led by Marta Cor… Continue reading ISS is home to super-tough molds that laugh in the face of deadly radiation
Art projects can fundamentally be anything you like, as long as you say they’re art at the end of it all. They don’t always work, or work well, but they often explore new ideas. Often, artists working on installations fall back on similar tools and techniques used by the maker …read more
Continue reading Artistic Attempt To Send Digital Signals Via Fungus
Shiny, pretty and useful in electronics, gold has been prized by humans for millennia, but we’re not the only ones out there prospecting. Scientists from Australia’s CSIRO have now found a fungus species that mines for gold and even decorates… Continue reading Gold-mining fungi could guide human prospectors
Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi are increasingly becoming resistant to our best drugs, which is hurtling us towards a terrifying future where once-easily-treated infections become potentially life-threatening again. But now researchers… Continue reading Drug-resistant infections could be starved of nutrients using existing medicines