Spore Buddies announced an initiative focused on supporting scientific literacy through expanded access to materials used in microscopy-based mycology education. The announcement reflects ongoing ...

Moss spores have just joined the short list of life forms proven to withstand the raw vacuum of space for months at a time, surviving unshielded on the exterior of the International Space Station and ...

Airborne DNA from decades-old filters shows mosses moving their life cycles earlier as warming disrupts northern seasons.

If humans are to expand our habitat beyond Earth’s bounds, we will undoubtedly need the support of plant life: to remove ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and three other institutions are setting out to find what activates the spores in anthrax, the deadly bacterial ...

Recent advancements in omics-tools, combined with the decreasing costs of DNA sequencing and synthesis, have enabled the development of novel platforms in synthetic biology. These advancements ...

Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how a fungus reproduces, let alone about what the process might look like. But here you can see a network of soil fungus, with a reproductive spore ...

Bacterial spores store information about the individual growth history of their progenitor cells, thus retaining a "memory" that links the different stages of the bacterial life cycle. The spore ...

Annals of Botany, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 57 (January, 1951), pp. 1-21 (22 pages) F. annosus produces conidia abundantly in culture but rarely under natural conditions. Sporophores are formed on ...

NORTHERN IRELAND (WKRC) - A recent study discovered a new species of fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into spore-spreading zombies. The researchers behind the study, which was published ...

Spore Buddies announced an initiative focused on supporting scientific literacy through expanded access to materials used in microscopy-based ...