The mechanism by which the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is resilient to fungus-specific medications has been uncovered by an international research team.
There's a 3 1/2-square mile specimen in eastern Oregon that weighs 35,000 tons and could possibly be the biggest living thing on Earth, according to researchers at the University of Utah. It caused $1.5 million worth of damage to Georgia's peach trees in only two years. Armillaria ostoyae - the scientific name of the fungus - infects and kills 600 different species of woody plants and it is very difficult to kill this fungus.
Taking out animal products from our meals is affecting a lot of people, whether in terms of health or environmental reasons, so there is a rising hunger for protein sources replacement. Investors like Bill Gates and NASA have decided to support a company producing food out of a fungus from Yellowstone National Park hot springs.
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Mark Kozubal, co-founder of Nature s Fynd - originally Sustainable Bioproducts - who is also the Chief Scientific Officer of the company, was initially a Ph.D. student studying organisms that can inhabit extreme environmental conditions (extremophiles) in Yellowstone National Park.