“We took fresh bread and touched ... “We chose this experiment for our science class because we had been learning about decaying leaves and toxic mold and flu season was approaching ...

Mold is a fungus, like mushrooms. And it's made up of thousands of threadlike filaments called hyphae. It uses those filaments like roots: to feed. Hyphae extend into your stale bread or rotten ...

Fungi are the versatile thread connecting bread, cheese, alcohol ... oryzae, commonly known as koji mold, for his experiment. Using clustered regulatory interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR), the ...