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• Chefs: Don't upstage white truffles
White truffles, the underground fungi lauded for their delicate taste, may cost a fortune but chefs and connoisseurs in Italy, a major growing region, say they are best twinned with simple, peasant food. White truffles, also known as the kings' food ...
• Amoebas turn to family during tough times
Amoebas, along with plants, animals, protists and fungi, are considered eukaryotes by biologists. Sociality has also been detected among the other major group of organisms, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea), which are generally single-celled ...
• Undergrad competition inspires ulcer vaccine
Each year, teams from around the world, mainly undergraduates, spend six months designing, and then creating, bacteria and fungi with new properties for the competition. Entries have included everything from microbial fuel cells to yogurt-induced kidney ...
• Newfound fungus makes better biofuel
While many crops and microbes can be combined to make biofuels — including the fungi that became infamous as jungle rot during WWII — the newfound fungus could greatly simplify the process, its discoverers claim. Researchers have suggested that ...
• Expert seeks proof of ‘sick building syndrome’
When she got a whiff of the foul air that the black goo had created in her home, she decided to change her research focus and try to find out how and if the fungi that took over most of the flooded homes on the Gulf Coast might make people ill. ...