NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A “brilliant [and] entrancing”(The Guardian) journey into
the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and …

Soil is the habitat of countless organisms and encompasses an enormous variety of dynamic
environmental conditions. While it is evident that a thorough understanding of how …

Microorganisms are not only common pathogens in clinical practice, but also an important
participant in the maintenance of ecological balance, which plays a vital role in food …

How do fungi navigate through the complex microscopic maze-like structures found in the
soil? Fungal behaviour, especially at the hyphal scale, is largely unknown and challenging …

The combinatorial nature of many important mathematical problems, including
nondeterministic-polynomial-time (NP)-complete problems, places a severe limitation on the …

Understanding the motility behavior of bacteria in confining microenvironments, in which
they search for available physical space and move in response to stimuli, is important for …

We propose that fungi Basidiomycetes can be used as computing devices: information is
represented by spikes of electrical activity, a computation is implemented in a mycelium …

Intercellular distribution of nutrients and coordination of responses to internal and external
cues via endogenous signaling molecules are hallmarks of multicellular organisms …

Microfluidics for Biological Applications provides researchers and scientists in the
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life science industries with an introduction to the basics …

Mycelial fungi grow as indeterminate adaptive networks that have to forage for scarce
resources in a patchy and unpredictable environment under constant onslaught from …