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Color enhanced light micrograph (LM) of Candida auris, a yeast responsible for many infections. Resistant to most antifungal drugs, this fungus causes several deaths worldwide.

Blight review: The threat of a fungi-fuelled pandemic

19 July 2023

A new guide argues that infectious fungi and fungus-like pathogens are the most devastating causes of disease on Earth
There is so much we don't yet know about fungi

There is so much we don't yet know about fungi

3 June 2020

Fungi are perhaps the most enigmatic organisms on the planet. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake says we are only just beginning to discover how they work

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