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1,422 results for: Fungi

  1. Rust Never Sleeps

    A new flare-up in an age-old battle between wheat and a fungal killer.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Athlete’s foot therapy tapped to treat bat-killing fungus

    Over the past four years, a mysterious white-nose fungus has struck hibernating North American bats. Populations in affected caves and mines can experience death rates of more than 80 percent over a winter. In desperation, an informal interagency task force of scientists from state and federal agencies has just launched an experimental program to fight the plague. Their weapon: a drug ordinarily used to treat athlete’s foot.

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  3. Life

    Molecular Evolution

    Investigating the genetic books of life reveals new details of 'descent with modification' and the forces driving it.

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  4. Animals

    Classic view of leaf-cutter ants overlooked nitrogen-fixing partner

    A fresh look at a fungus-insect partnership that biologists have studied for more than a century uncovers a role for bacteria.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Bacteria flourish in favorite ecosystems on the human body

    Study offers most comprehensive inventory yet of the human microbiome and a basis for understanding how those microbes affect health.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    How resveratrol (in grapes, peanuts and wine) fights fat and disease

    Resveratrol, a constituent of grapes and certain other plants, can fight the proliferation of fat cells and improve the uptake of sugar from the blood, a pair of new studies indicate. These observations offer some mechanisms to explain why grape products, including wine, have developed a reputation as heart healthy, obesity-fighting and beneficial for people developing diabetes.

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  7. Earth

    On plant invaders and bat fungus

    Researchers discuss invasive species and bat-infecting fungi at the Botany & Mycology 2009 meeting

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  8. Life

    Carried aloft, tiny creatures avoid parasites, sex

    Dry and blowing in the breeze, rotifers are safe from a deadly fungus — and perhaps from the vulnerabilities presumed to accompany asexual reproduction.

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  9. Anthropology

    Ancient DNA points to additional New World migration

    Scientists have extracted a nearly complete genome from the hairs of a 4,000-year-old man, suggesting a new scenario for Asian migrations into the New World.

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  10. Physics

    Pseudo pores help fling spores

    New studies reveal that a thick, soft plant expels its progeny in an unexpected way.

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  11. Archaeology

    Biocides inducing resistance in Lascaux cave’s microbes

    Study makes researchers wonder whether they should treat fungus or not.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Germs in tobacco are potential source of respiratory infections blamed on smoking

    Tests find hundreds of bacterial species in major cigarette brands.

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