But it's very important to cook them before eating them; consuming them raw, or even just undercooked, could give you shiitake flagellate dermatitis -- a painful and itchy rash. Read more ...

Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bangladesh mark the Ashura festival, which commemorates the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in 680AD.

It is named after its distinguishing feature—the “ancoracyst,” a gun-like organelle that it uses to “shoot” at and immobilize its prey, usually other flagellate species. Janouškovec, a molecular ...