Petri Dish Mold Test Kits offer two testing methods: capturing airborne spores in a room or collecting surface samples. These kits culture the samples to help identify mold presence and type.

If the petri dish was coated in a slime mat prior to the test, the scientists found that the mold would take almost 10 times longer than if the petri dish was clean.

Working at St. Mary’s Hospital, London, Fleming was famous for absentmindedly leaving out Petri dishes filled with mold for weeks at a time.

No, it’s not a Rorschach inkblot: This image captures two single-celled organisms having a chat. Individual members of Physarum polycephalum, which in nature clump together by the thousands to form a ...

The accidental discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold contaminated one of his petri dishes, changed the course of modern medicine, with antibiotics key to the decline of ...

The accidental discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold contaminated one of his petri dishes, changed the course of modern medicine, with antibiotics key to the decline of ...

A man inadvertently turned his parents’ car into a Petri dish on wheels due to one strange mishap. As a result, he’s reporting that he’s battling what he terms “mold poisoning.” In that ...

Which mold test kit is best? When it comes to mold, you don’t want to take any chances — especially if you suspect a mold outbreak within your home. Part of the difficulty in identifying and ...

Slime mold gets little respect. That’s particularly true of the variety called “dog vomit” for its resemblance to the real thing. The word itself – slime – has a special place in ...