Fungal nail infections are called onychomycosis. Many types of fungi can cause nail infections, but some common types include Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale. Fungi are ...

Reporting in Current Biology today (January 17), Veera Tuovinen of the University of Alberta and her colleagues describe wolf lichens (Letharia) that are made up of an alga along with three types of ...

occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it. Like many microbes, there are helpful fungi and harmful fungi.

The fungi provided essential minerals for land plants that allowed them to spread and turn the planet green — changing the composition of the atmosphere. Three hundred and sixty million years ...