Like weeds in a lawn, pathogenic fungi and yeasts (single-celled fungi) can invade and overtake our bodies. In people with healthy immune systems, cells called macrophages and neutrophils engulf these ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do ...

I love watching the dough bubble and rise. I asked my friend Mel Darbyshire why that happens. She’s head of baking at Washington State University’s Breadlab. There, scientists and bakers work together ...

Voyeuristic scientists have caught yeast having sex, and lots of it, a finding that questions the assumed chastity of the microscopic fungi that cause yeast infections in humans. Subscribe to read ...

Invasive fungal infections are now estimated to affect about 6.5 million people every year around the world, and while many ...

Fungi are far more than just mushrooms—they’re nature’s recyclers, plant partners, and even potential lifesavers. From vast underground networks feeding forests to fire-loving species restoring burned ...

MERSIN, Turkey, July 9 (UPI) -- High temperature, high moisture and alkaline pH in many dishwashers can provide a habitat for harmful germs such as black yeast fungi, Turkish researchers say. Aylin ...

An imagined conversation between two yeast cells appears in Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. "They were discussing the possible purposes of life," Vonnegut writes. If that's not ...