Unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, this giant mushroom also has psychedelic properties. When you think of a ...

IN the course of investigations carried out on the influence of bacteria and fungi on flour kept under ... by repeated contamination of the Petri dishes used for spore counts by spreaders such ...

The soil fungus Mortierella alpina in a petri dish. M. alpina produces special molecules with a worm-killing effect, the malpinins, which it uses to protect itself from predators.

An curved arrow pointing right. Petri Dish Picasso is an organization bringing this little-known art to the masses. The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate ...

The accidental discovery of a fungal contaminant in a Petri dish by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 led to ... was discovered in Ergot fungus, but it received little attention. It wasn’t until almost a ...

This disorder proved very fortunate. In 1928, he was straightening up a pile of Petri dishes where he had been growing bacteria, but which had been piled in the sink. He opened each one and ...