Can't believe this book is finally out! Hooray! Take a peek at me, Radamés JB Cordero, and Arturo Casadevall in Chapter 1, where we look at fungal infections during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. novapublishers.com/shop/the-book-…

#FluorescenceFriday movie of septation and branch emergence in polarized hyphal cells of the #riceblast fungus. #Septins (magenta), cell-end marker (green) and cell wall (blue) labelled. Imaged by Audra Rogers.

The hypothermic nature of fungi | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Great summary of the hypothermic fungi story including how we got into this and the fun science of making the Mycocoler. It all began when Radamés JB Cordero took a walk on the woods with an infrared camera during COVID pandemic. science.org/content/articl…

Mushrooms are cool. 🍄 "The researchers found that they cooled themselves using evaporation..." phys.org/news/2023-05-m…

Infrared thermograph of Pleurotus eryngii mushrooms showing how much colder they are than the environment (blue = cold). Fungal hypothermia raises fundamental questions of why their biology and metabolism prefers cooler temperatures. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Now we know why mushrooms are so much colder. See the article just published by Cordero at al. 2023 The Hypothermic Nature of Fungi. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Fungi are cooler than you think—literally! 😎🍄 Infrared thermography reveals that mushrooms, molds, and yeasts maintain a lower temperature that their surroundings via evaporative cooling (a fungal form of sweating). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #coolfungi

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The fungal kingdom is characteristically cold. In recent PNASNews paper Radamés JB Cordero, Ellie Rose Mattoon & Arturo Casadevall suggest mushrooms, yeast & mold can maintain colder temperatures than their surroundings. Each achieve hypothermia via evaporative cooling. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Honored to be dubbed the "Mushroom Paparazzi" by the talented Andrea Hoferichter 📸🍄| MIT Technology Review heise.de/hintergrund/10… #MushroomPaparazzi

Great synthesis by Ethan Freedman pulling together the many strands that contribute to the story that the fungal kingdom is hypothermic. I like the idea of sweating fungi!...his insight! Radamés JB Cordero livescience.com/planet-earth/p…

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. nature.com/immersive/d415…

Commentary in CellChemicalBiology calls our report of antibody (Ab) catalytic destruction of the spike protein 'a new paradigm in neutralization'. Catalytic Abs have been ignored for too long. I hope more consider Ab catalysis in other systems Andrew Pekosz pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37478826/

Our favorite planet has now seen 20 days in a row breaking the modern-day record high-temperature of 16.924°C (62.46°F) set on July 24, 2022. This global heatwave is likely the hottest 20-day stretch in the last 100,000+ years.