Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

A pair of new studies have reported novel links between fungal microorganisms and cancer. The research reports different types of tumors seem to harbor unique fungal populations, raising the ...

Scientists discovered traces of fungi lurking in the tumors of people with different types of cancer, including breast, colon, pancreatic and lung cancers.

Or that different types of cancers would harbor different types of fungus? Or that the DNA of these fungi could be detected in the blood and possibly used to identify specific cancers, and maybe even ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 40 different species of fungi may cause tinea infections that affect your scalp, groin, feet and other parts of your body.

Fungal sinusitis involves inflammation of the sinuses due to the presence of fungi. The sinuses are hollow, air-filled spaces near the nose, cheeks, and eyes. There are two different classes of ...

Cordyceps and Ophiocordyceps are types of fungi that affect insects. ... Taxonomic families include different genera — or plural of genus — which themselves include different species.

A large crowd sprouted up around mycologist Christin Swearingen under the Ester Park pavilion Sunday morning and an array of different mushrooms. Questions flew about the different fungi, whether ...