For over 100 years, it was assumed that the penicillin-producing mold fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum, only reproduced asexually through spores. Biologists have now shown for the first time that the ...

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Mold is a common household problem that many of us worry about, especially when it comes to our health. There are a lot of ...

The white, fluffy layer that covers Camembert is made of a mould resulting from human selection, similar to the way dogs were domesticated from wolves. A collaboration involving French scientists from ...

The mold fungus Penicillium crustosum occurs relatively frequently in food and animal fodder stored in temperate conditions. This mold produces powerful neurotoxins, for example penitrem A, which ...

Moulds haven’t just gained mutations in order to grow better in cheese, but they have also picked up DNA from other species in the process Like many biologists, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega ...