CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (May 13, 2003)––When a few weeds appear on your front lawn, you can easily pick them off one by one. But if they start taking over the yard, the picking becomes laborious, and you may ...

The drug-resistant fungus Candida auris (C. auris) was only discovered some 15 years ago but is already one of the world's most feared hospital microbes. If it gets inside the body, the yeast-type ...

Voyeuristic scientists have caught yeast having sex, and lots of it, a finding that questions the assumed chastity of the microscopic fungi that cause yeast infections in humans. Such sexual antics ...

It gets your dishes clean and sparkling, but your dishwasher may be a hotspot for potentially dangerous germs. With their moist, warm environment, dishwashers are a “major indoor niche” for harmful ...

Like weeds in a lawn, pathogenic fungi and yeasts (single-celled fungi) can invade and overtake our bodies. In people with healthy immune systems, cells called macrophages and neutrophils engulf these ...