A Drug-Resistant Fungus Is Spreading Through American Hospitals

Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, CDC reports. How much of the rise in this drug-resistant fungus is ...

Scientists Just Found a Hyperparasite That Hunts the Zombie Ant Fungus

For example, the fungal hyperparasite Coniothyrium minitans feasts on the pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, which frequently ...
Women's Health

This Rare Fungus Can Spread From Cats to Humans

At a conference earlier this month, Shawn Lockhart, PhD, director of the Fungal Reference Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented the case of a Sporothrix ...

New magic mushroom makes users see tiny ‘gnome’ people — scientists have no idea how it’s doing that

Magic mushrooms? You have gnome idea. Move over psilocybin — there’s a new psychoactive agent on the scene. A study published ...