As fashion designers look for alternatives to leather, growing mycelium – or fungi-based – ‘leather’ substitutes using a new paste media has opened up the possibility of growing this bio-fabricated ...

A future where sustainable and self-repairing homes are built with engineered living materials (ELMs) got a little closer to being realized thanks to a promising new study. CNN reported that ...

Ecovative Design will expand its AirMycelium technology to “introduce new, high-value mycelium crops to the mushroom farming industry and accelerating the growth of the mycelium materials sector,” ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Synthetic plastics derive their exceptional properties from complex molecular structures—structures that make them both highly useful and environmentally problematic. Creating ...

We are of two minds about mushrooms. As part of the fungi kingdom, they may be the death of us (see HBO's "The Last of Us"). Or, just maybe, a big handful of the 5 million or more species will be our ...

Mushroom mycelium can clean up the soil. Can it also help Indigenous people reconnect to the land? CU Boulder researcher Natalie Avalos aims to find out Fungi are powerful and versatile organisms.

Loop Biotech is a company based in the Netherlands that aims to change people's perception of burial and cremation completely. Designers Bob and Lonneke Hendrikx, the founders of the company, grow ...