While I was working on a mycoremediation experiment, specifically involving biofuel, I was making galleries full of bacteria and fungi together.
What I noticed in these galleries, the fungi in the bacteria, were acting really odd.
It was like watching a gladiator match!
So when I put the Shiitake mushroom, for instance, on the plate, and I put the two pellets of bacteria, to watch them battle it out, the bacteria sped away, two to three inches off the plate, in 12 hours.
So that what told me..hmm, you know the Shiitake's got some pretty powerful components to it. And this bacteria does not want to go anywhere NEAR that Shiitake...
Alright, so it's being very defensive in leaving, trying to get off the plate.
Myco-medicine with Tradd Cotter - interview
When you zoom in on the picture, when you get it on the computer, that you don't see with your naked eye...So what I saw was these tiny little droplets all over the Shiitake mycelium - very fine little droplets.
So when I, I found that when pairing Shiitake mycelium and Aspergillus together - it completely....
[Aspergillus is a genus consisting of a few hundred mould]
grew over the top of this other mould and just carpet bombed the entire fungus [mould is a fungus] and produced a LOT of metabolites this time. What that told me is that I could basically TRIGGER a Biomass of mycelium to produce a very novel specific compound, exclusively for any organism.
So let's try to wrap our head around this one. Alright....
This is the hospital of the future........
Mold or mould are a same word with altered spellings, indicating fungus or a container for molten liquid when acting as a noun, or the action of forming something as a verb. British English to this day, uses mould while Americans prefer mold.
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