Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dandruff is characterized by plaques and flakes on the scalp that are caused by an overgrowth of Malassezia, a fungus that’s ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First, researchers grew enough fungus to give dandruff to 10 million people. Next, they sequenced its genes. Then they found out that not only does an icky fungus live on your ...

Until relatively recently, the fungus Malassezia was thought to have one favorite home: us. As the dominant fungus on human skin and sometimes-cause of dandruff, the yeast Malassezia was thought to ...

Dandruff causes flakes of skin to appear in hair and on shoulders, and for some people, it also leads to an itchy scalp. Dandruff can be caused by several things, like dry or oily skin, certain hair ...

A viral social media trend encourages people to wash their face with anti-dandruff shampoo, but skin experts in India advise ...