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 ...
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,” ...
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 ...
Cornell researchers have developed a pair of small robots powered by mycelium designed for use in agriculture and space exploration. The researchers, led by Anand Mishra, a professor at Cornell ...
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 ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Synthetic plastics derive their exceptional properties from complex molecular structures—structures that make them both highly useful and environmentally problematic. Creating ...
Mycelium is the root structure of mushrooms. The process Ecovative uses to create its products seems to take inspiration from science-fiction. Workers covered in PPE gear, like plastic shoe covers, ...
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