A recent study has shed light on the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of Penicillium expansum, the fungal culprit behind ...

Every March 27 is celebrated around the world as International Cheese Day and it seems to us the ideal excuse to pay tribute ...

“Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ... Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin — from a fungus called Penicillium — that we used to combat bacterial epidemics that kept sweeping ...

April 2023. Barrientos, Maria Alejandra. Penicillium rubens as the first fungal model to study the effect of microgravity on penicillin production. Thesis for the Degree of Licentiate in Biotechnology ...

found the depressed group had less diversity of fungi, with higher levels of Candida and less Penicillium in particular. ‘It’s hard to unravel cause versus consequence in situations like this ...

The human race ignored the green mould on bread for thousands of years until Alexander Fleming realised this genus of fungus, Penicillium, could be used as an antibiotic, which has since saved ...

IT was considered of interest to study the effect of plant-growth substances on the production of penicillin by the mould P. notatum. Several experiments have been carried out using indole-3 ...

It is derived from the Penicillium fungus, shown here growing on an agar plate. Many new types of antibiotics were discovered during the 1950s and 1960s, but more recently, this has slowed greatly.

Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the Penicillium fungus, which had contaminated his petri dish. As an extension of the study of cells and the structure of ...

Ancient hominins in northern Spain ate mushrooms, pine nuts, and moss, and may have used Penicillium mold and other natural products to sooth toothache pain. Jef Akst was managing editor of The ...

This individual was eating poplar, a source of aspirin, and had also consumed moulded vegetation including Penicillium fungus, source of a natural antibiotic. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!