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Hunt for cordyceps in the Tibetan plateau
On the peaks of the Tibetan plateau, nomadic people crawled in the middle of the grass to search for Cordyceps, a rare oriental medicine made from parasitic fungi.
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Biology
Poisonous mushrooms, very similar cicadas with cicadas in Vietnam
This fungus is extremely poisonous, can cause death to humans, its toxins are not lost when prepared, or heated.
Biology
This parasitic fungus will be a new future for agriculture
It is said that artificial pesticides are like an unwilling human friend. Although we know how scary the dangers are, we still have to use them.
Biology
Parasitic fungi cause the cicadic belly to explode to spread spores
Scientists at the University of Connecticut, USA, learned in detail how the fungus Massospora cicadina infects many cicadas.
Biology
Startling about the parasitic fungus that turns ants into living corpses
Carpenter ant - carpenter ant of tropical rainforest Brazil has a very uneventful life
Biology
Mushrooms turn beetles into living corpses to lure prey
After infecting and killing beetles, the fungus controls the dead beetle on the flower to entice another host.
Biology
There is a cure for fungi
According to a report on PLoS ONE, Ophiocordyceps fungus after getting into the brain ants will control the host until the body is destroyed. Ants infected with this fun…
Biology
Mushroom decomposes plastics
Very complex and durable chemical bonding of products made from petrochemical technology helps them resist the ability to break down naturally. It has been estimated tha…
Medicine - Health
Discovered where mushrooms have the greatest diversity in human skin
While humans have used the power of yeast to ferment bread and beer, the function of yeast and of other fungi living in and on the human body is not well understood.
Medicine - Health
French suspended circulation Nizoral tablet form
The French Medical Product Security Agency (Afssaps) has issued a statement about the suspension of Nizoral's circulation license (containing the safe agent of theoconaz…