The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter, but several members of the excavation team, ...

"This is nature's irony at its finest... The same fungus once feared for bringing death may now help save lives." Not long ...

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

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

When King Tut's tomb was opened, those involved in the discovery started 'mysteriously' dying. Is the Curse of the Pharaohs real, or can it be explained in another way? Science has tried to explain ...

These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.

Researchers have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a toxic fungus previously associated with the "curse of the pharaohs," produces compounds with potent anti-cancer activity. These compounds, named ...

A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...

It gained notoriety after being connected to unexplained deaths that followed the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s. Later investigations into these mysterious deaths suggested that ...

A dreaded fungus known to inhabit tombs has been reconstituted as a treatment for leukemia and is performing as effectively ...

A mushroom once thought to be an ancient Egyptian curse has been found to be a potential cure for some forms of cancer.