fungi

Anti-fungal drug offers great benefits to some with severe asthma

harminka — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:19:40 -0600

Some patients with severe asthma who also have allergic sensitivity to certain fungi enjoy great improvements in their quality of life and on other measures after taking an antifungal drug, according to new research from The University of Manchester in England.

In fungi, reproductive spores are remarkably aerodynamic

harminka — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:31:14 -0600

The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University.

New self-training gene prediction program for fungi

harminka — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:06:29 -0500

Software is a new addition to the family of GeneMark gene prediction programs developed at Georgia Tech

Fungi cause of many outbreaks of disease but mostly ignored

harminka — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:01:13 -0500

Fungi can cause a number of life-threatening diseases but they also are becoming increasingly useful to science and manufacturing every year. However, many people, scientists among them, are largely unaware of the roles fungi play in the world around us.

Fungi have hand in depleted uranium's environmental fate

harminka — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:23:08 -0500

Fungi may have an important role to play in the fate of potentially dangerous depleted uranium left in the environment after recent war campaigns, according to a new report in the May 6th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Not-So-Digital Future of Digital Signal Processing

harminka — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:24 -0500

Fungi processing audio signals. E. Coli storing images. DNA acting as logic circuits.

Study identifies mechanism underlying multidrug resistance in fungi

harminka — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:23:14 -0500

A team of researchers led by Anders Nддr, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center has identified a mechanism controlling multidrug resistance in fungi.

Fungi can tell us about the origin of sex chromosomes

harminka — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:15:30 -0500

Fungi do not have sexes, just so-called mating types. A new study being published today in the prestigious journal PLoS shows that there are great similarities between the parts of DNA that determine the sex of plants and animals and the parts of DNA that determine mating types in certain fungi.

Secrets of cooperation between trees and fungi revealed

harminka — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:08:32 -0600

Trees and fungi have constructed a close relationship with the passing of the ages. Fungi like to grow between the roots of trees and the arrangement is beneficial to both partners. Their delicate balance is now being revealed for the very first time.

Evolution of the Sexes

harminka — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:46:40 -0600

Fungi don't exactly come in boy and girl varieties, but they do have sex differences. In fact, a new finding from Duke University Medical Center shows that some of the earliest evolved forms of fungus contain clues to how the sexes evolved in higher animals, including that distant cousin of fungus, the human.

What gives us sunburn protects crayfish against bacteria

harminka — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:09:34 -0500

The production of melanin gives us sunburns, but it also helps invertebrate animals to encapsulate attacking fungi and parasites. Uppsala University researchers, in collaboration with Korean and Thai colleagues, can now show that melanin also protects against bacterial infections, at least in crayfish. The study is published in the latest Net edition of Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Challenges remain in reintroducing American chestnut

harminka — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:50:01 -0500

Researchers have developed a breed of American chestnut that is resistant to the fungal blight that decimated its population in the early 1900s.