According to the authors, Host Defense Lion's Mane mushroom mycelium powder supported a broad range of immune- and oxidative stress--related pathways while exhibiting comparatively lower inflammatory ...

The fruiting bodies of bambusicolous Shiraia fungi have long been used in traditional Chinese folk medicine. Hypocrellin A (HA) is a bioactive perylenequinone from the fruiting bodies and serves as an ...

Sometimes a photo is literally a matter of life, death — and zombies. This haunting image, winner of the 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition, certainly fits that description. It ...

There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from the paucity of antifungal drug options to lack of vaccines and diagnostic difficulties in humans, to the potential for catastrophic crop and ...

Libre Foods is working with both fungi fruiting bodies and mycelia to boost diversity, functionality, and taste in meat-free offerings, CEO Alan Iván Ramos tells FoodNavigator. Plant-based meat ...

Morel mushrooms are spring’s fungal prize. Autumn offers mycophagus collectors many more opportunities, and over a much longer season. Sulphur fungi (chicken-of-the-woods), puffballs, oyster fungi, ...