Bacteria living inside other cells can form stable, mutually beneficial partnerships with their hosts, but it is rare that two organisms are sufficiently compatible on their first encounter.

Making oncom is almost magical. It starts with a pile of soy pulp, which is wrapped in banana leaves and sprinkled with the spores of a fungus called Neurospora intermedia. The bundle is left to ...

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Mycosis nail fungus, also known as onychomycosis, is a fungal infection of the nail unit. It is more common in the toenails because fungi thrive in warm, moist environments like your shoes.

Iodine is an essential mineral which is crucial in maintaining thyroid health. It is used by the thyroid gland to produce hormones that regulate metabolism, growth, and development. Sadly, many ...

And the cycle starts all over. The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae—Entomophthora translates to “destroyer of insects.” It’s an obligate ...

New research into a chemical produced by a caterpillar fungus that has shown promise as a possible cancer treatment has revealed how it interacts with genes to interrupt cell growth signals.

After trials showed that supplements of iodine could prevent goitre, iodised salt was rolled out commercially in 1924, starting in grocery stores in Michigan. By the 1940s, the goitre belt had ...

A difficult-to-treat 'genital super fungus' is likely already silently spreading in the UK, experts warned today. Cases of the contagious infection dubbed a 'potential public health threat' have ...

A low-iodine diet is prescribed before diagnostic radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) tests and before radioactive iodine treatments. The RAIU test is an imaging scan used to check thyroid health.

At a town meeting last year, Beth Downs held up photos from Tennessee and Kentucky, showing stop signs and trees covered in an ugly black mold called whiskey fungus.

A fungus that causes genital infections has seen a spike in cases in New York City, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. The fungus, named Trichophyton mentagrophytes ...