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 ...

That's because mold is a fungus, like mushrooms. The caps on the surface are easy enough to spot. But there's a vast network of subterranean "roots" called hyphae that you can't see. So let's take ...

A recent report by Cavins Disaster Response Group revealed Norman Public Library Central mold conditions have improved in ...

Aggregation in slime molds has long fascinated scientists who ... Some scientists had hypothesized that hyphae, the filamentous structures that are the main mode of fungal exploration, evolved from ...

Histoplasma capsulatum is a primary fungal pathogen that can switch between a sporulating hyphal form in the soil and a yeast form in the host. Growth in the yeast form is thought to be essential ...

The hyphae of water molds—fungus-like pathogens that cause blight in crops—are particularly pointy. "A major challenge in biology is to identify the specific evolutionary factors that ...