Credit: Shutterstock A toxic mold once feared for causing mysterious deaths in ancient tombs is now at the center of a ...

Aspergillus flavus is a toxic crop fungus that has been linked to deaths in the excavation of ancient tombs. It was recently used in a test against leukemia cells and resulted in those cells being ...

A little over 100 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened in Egypt, releasing rumors of a curse. Today, researchers ...

A fatal fungus once thought to be a curse could potentially help fight disease. Scientists discovered molecules in a fungus ...

The toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus— known as the “Pharaoh’s Curse” due to its role in the deaths of archaeologists who ...

The deadly fungus credited with killing the archaeologists that opened the tomb of King Tut might become a treatment for ...

Scientists have found that a deadly tomb fungus called Aspergillus flavus may hold the key to promising new treatments for leukemia.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound after ...

The scientists mapped the effects of rising temperatures on global distribution of three infection-causing fungi under different climate scenarios through 2100: Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus ...

Aspergillus flavus is an opportunistic pathogen that can infect a variety of grains, including maize, peanuts, rice, and nuts. Furthermore, it compromises food safety by producing the aflatoxins B1, ...

The extracts obtained were submitted to a biological screening to monitor their antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli), a ...

Guided by biosynthetic gene cluster analysis, fractionation of the fermentation extract of Aspergillus templicola from the sponge Agelas sp. led to the isolation of nine new cytochalasins, named ...