Engineering strategies to improve terpenoids’ production in Bacillus subtilis mainly focus on 2C-methyl-d-erythritol-4-phosphate (MEP) pathway overexpression. To systematically engineer the chassis ...

If you're trying to get rid of gnats, you may be interested in reading about the smells that gnats absolutely hate!

The genus Bacillus is second most studied genera for bacteriocin production e.g. Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis, these are generally regarded as safe bacteria [10]. This genus includes a ...

In a discovery that feels straight out of science fiction, scientists have unearthed a 99-million-year-old piece of amber containing a fly and an ant, both infected by a mind-controlling fungus. The ...

The disease, called white-nose syndrome, is caused by a fungus called Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd). It can sometimes turn the faces of hibernating bats white, giving it its name.

Ash trees are evolving resistance to a fungus which has decimated the species in recent years, a new study shows.

Science News: Scientists have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a fungus linked to ancient “mummy curses,” contains compounds effective against leukemia cells. Re ...

Scientists have caught ancient parasitic fungi in the act of bursting from insect hosts, in dramatic scenes frozen in amber. Dating back almost 100 million years, these two specimens are among the ...

Science Real-life ‘Last of Us’ zombie fungus discovered — and it may have lived alongside dinosaurs Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects ...

Research suggests new generation of young ash trees showing greater resistance to ash dieback fungus than adult trees.

The toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus—known as the “Pharaoh’s Curse” due to its role in the deaths of archaeologists who opened the Tomb of Tutankhamun in the 1920s—could have cancer ...

While fungus gnats don’t damage plants or bite people, their larvae, in large numbers, can damage delicate root structures and cause your houseplants’ growth to become stunted. They can even damage ...