The story of Candida auris starts in 2009, when a 70-year-old Japanese woman is a patient at the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital. Something discharges from one of her ears, and the doctors ...

The cells of some yeast species undergo what appears to be a self-destruct process following certain kinds of stress, according to a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do their life’s ...

Conservation of structures and functions between single-celled fungi and human cells allow researchers to probe the brain. Infographic: Modeling Neurodegenerative Diseases with Yeast Infographic: ...

A frightening superbug yeast that’s killing people in hospitals can also survive just fine outside of them, according to a new study out Tuesday. For the first time, researchers say they’ve discovered ...

Scientists are raising alarms about a deadly fungus that is a growing global threat. An invasive yeast fungus called Candida auris is rapidly spreading around the world and is increasingly resistant ...

The results suggest that internal -- not external -- factors are the primary drivers of variation in the types of carbon yeasts can eat, and the researchers found no evidence that metabolic ...

For 450 million years, plants and soil fungi have been trading partners. The fungi weave through plant roots, delivering ...

A critical gene that leads to the synthesis of a protein known as Knr4 could be the key to what makes some fungal pathogens so virulent. Focusing prevention strategies on disabling or modifying this ...