Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

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A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The infected pig was from a backyard farming operation ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

A bird flu virus has jumped one species closer to a human outbreak. The H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in Oregon, the first instance of a swine infection in the US, officials announced on ...

H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for the first time, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. The USDA and Oregon veterinary officials are investigating bird ...

The Agricultural Disaster Microloan Program will combine two assistance programs to offer disaster loans to farmers and ...

The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an “unexpected cardiac event,” and there was no sign his body was ...

A Pig in a butcher's outfit, intensely typing on a computer. Today is Halloween, a time for ghouls, goblins and harmless pranks. But in the digital landscape, there’s a new trick with ...

While these fungi were described in the scientific literature as early as the mid-1800s, the extent and precision of the behavioral control that they exert on their unfortunate insect hosts—and the ...

A case of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Pigs represent a ...