The paper S. Fukuda et al., “Trade-off between plasticity and velocity in mycelial growth,” mBio, 12:e03196–20, 2021. Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving ...

A type of fungus which grows on caterpillars can slow down growth of cancer cells, new research has found. Cordycepin, a chemical produced by a parasitic fungus that infects the animals, interacts ...