Fungal infections are getting harder to treat as they grow more resistant to available drugs, according to research published ...

Fungi are increasingly resistant to antifungals, and the variation in resistance has significantly increased. This is evident ...

Could a legendary tomb curse become a medical miracle? Scientists may have reengineered Aspergillus flavus, linked to King ...

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in archeologists who discovered King Tut’s tomb.

A fatal fungus once thought to be a curse could potentially help fight disease. Scientists discovered molecules in a fungus linked to Tutankhamun's tomb that stop the proliferation of cancer cells and ...

In the 1970s, a dozen scientists entered the tomb of Casimir IV in Poland. Within weeks, 10 of them died from Aspergillus flavus.

The researchers engineered a compound that kills leukemia cells with potency comparable to FDA-approved therapies by ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound after isolating a new class of molecules from it.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...

Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of ...