A block of Tomme de Savoie cheese ages with a sweater of Mucor lanceolatus fungal mold. Mucor itself doesn't have a strong taste, but more flavorful bacteria can travel far and wide along its hyphae â ...

Experts warn that scraping off a small patch of mold isn’t as harmless as it looks. Toxic compounds called mycotoxins can ...

You'd think reaching for bleach when you spot mold would be the smartest move. After all, it's what our parents did, and it ...

Fungi forming mold on food are hazardous. Fungi supplying antibiotics are beneficial. Fungi may be harmful pathogens. On the other hand, they are used for the production of food or medicine and in ...

It was the tiny streams of slime that stood out. As a microbiologist who studies the rinds of cheeses like Stilton, Gruyere and Taleggio, Benjamin Wolfe had done plenty of experiments on bacteria, ...