“Fungi and animals are very closely related on the evolutionary ... “Even just doing that, we started to see some interesting multicellular properties.” The researchers used lasers to disrupt the ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

the closest matches were in a yeast and multicellular molds. “It turned out even the arrangements of the genes in the genome was the same as in the fungi,” says Moran. “It all made sense, and ...

Imagine life without animals, trees, and fungi. The world would look very different. But while the first life was surely single-celled, we don’t know just how it evolved to multicellular organisms.

Why It Matters Endosymbiosis is the foundation of complex, multicellular life as we know it, giving rise to the mitochondria ...

Fungi are organisms that are grouped in a distinct ... ranging from microorganisms such as yeasts or moulds to large multicellular mushrooms. IL-1 is important in the immune response to Candida ...