Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...

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.

From helping us grow our food to tackling our plastic waste problem ... including biofungicides (usually specialised bacteria or fungi), has surged. This petri dish shows a biofungicide in action. The ...

“Mycelium is comparable to the root structure of plants, although fungi ... dish. Consistent and scalable production was the biggest challenge for the research team as the restaurant needed ...

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 ...