Mushroom poisonings in California have killed four and sickened dozens more in the largest known U.S. outbreak of its kind.

Three adults hospitalized in Napa County after eating toxic wild mushrooms as California's deadly poisoning outbreak claims ...

Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

Michigan's morel mushroom hunters are filling up their bags this spring. But pretenders can make you sick, even kill you in large enough quantities.

Psychedelic drugs, after decades of being synonymous with counterculture, are now being seriously studied as medical treatments. Early clinical studies have suggested that psilocybin, a compound ...

One of the most poisonous species of wild mushrooms is in the Amanita genus. It is quite common in our area during wet summers and autumns. This white mushroom, with a smooth cap, white gills and ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months ...

Amanita Café in Lancaster city will open the doors of its new location at 223 W. Walnut St., next to West End Yoga, on Monday. The new location is just one and a half blocks away from its former ...

In a snow-covered village on the northern outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s most famous mycologist, Mikhail Vishnevsky, poured me a cup of light psychoactive mushroom tea. But it wasn’t psilocybin, the ...

FDA warned food manufacturers that Amanita muscaria (A. muscaria) is not “authorized for use in conventional foods,” does not meet Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) standards and poses a health risk ...