Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton began as friends, their collaboration leading to the rise of medicinal mushroom supplements.

New technology is driving part of this boom. Companies such as Ecovative have pioneered growing mycelium for use in food, leather-like textiles and packaging materials, while MycoWorks transforms ...

As the mycelium grows through contaminated soil, it transforms hazardous chemicals into water, carbon dioxide, and other harmless substances. Unlike many chemical treatments, ...

Mycelium as a scaffold for biomineralized engineered living materials. Cell Reports Physical Science , 2025; 6 (4): 102517 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102517 Cite This Page : ...

Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are now one step closer to eventually making it a reality, according to a new study.. A ...

Each tray is incubating mycelium, a mesh of fine filaments that, for fungi, are roughly analogous to a plant’s root system. Mycelium is a structural marvel—simultaneously soft, dense, and ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was in Charlotte Wednesday to speak on the issue of plastic contamination in our country’s food system.

If you have problems with soil contamination from motor oil, gasoline, and other common contaminants found in urban and suburban yards, mushrooms may be the answer to your problem.

Discover the potential of mycelium bio-composites in architecture. ... Fortunately, only one of the samples became contaminated, an incident that occurred when attempting to film the process, ...

The trick to interfacing the mycelium with an electrical system was to culture it in a 3D-printed scaffold until it basically grew into the electrodes after 14 to 33 days.

Keen 4 Greens’ MacGowan von Holstein is hopeful new mycelium-based products will reach the market ‘very soon’: as early as late 2022/early 2023. Hamburg-based Mushlabs, which is leveraging submerged ...