The dense line of hyphae toward the bottom of the image (3) demarks the surface of the agar that this fungus is growing on. Click on the right arrow to see some additional views of Aspergillus fungi.

Aggregation in slime molds has long fascinated scientists who study the origins of multicellularity—that is, how our single-celled ancestors came together to form tissues, eventually enabling the ...

In the future, the team hope to make the fungi even more appealing by tuning the genes that control the mold’s texture. Given ...