#Fungi makes a meal of hard-to-#recycle #plastic.

#bioremediation #biotechnology #Aspergillus #Engyodontium

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-fungi-meal-hard-to-recycle-plastic.html

Working against the mainstream in #fungal #systematics.

#Aspergillus #phylogenetics #genomics

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-mainstream-fungal-systematics.html

I found this particularly interesting in that it discusses a new way covid infections interact with our immune system, making us open to new deadly fungal infections.

"We discovered that influenza and COVID-19 destroy a previously unknown natural immunity that we need to resist invasive fungal infections," says Nicole Sarden, a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary and first author on the study.

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20230112/New-insights-into-deadly-fungal-invasion-in-people-with-compromised-immune-systems.aspx

@auscovid19
#Aspergillus
#CovidIsNotOver

13 months ago, I started making 4 gallons of soy sauce. This required mixing 1 Kitchen-Full of soybeans and wheat with the mold spores of Aspergillus Oryzae, adding salt and water, and stirring regularly. Today I tasted it for the first time, and it’s fantastic. Fruity, funky, savory.

If you’re in Portland and want a taste (and are willing to show some courage in the face of a small but nonzero chance of botulism), I have enough to share.

#Fermentation #Koji #SoySauce #Shoyu #Aspergillus