Researchers colonised waste cotton textiles with Ganoderma lucidum (reishi mushroom) to produce composite materials with tensile strengths up to 14 MPa: far stronger than any mycelium composite previously reported, and comparable to medium-density fibreboard (MDF).

Oleaginous fungi can store up to 80% of their dry weight as oil, rivalling or exceeding many plant and algal feedstocks.

Mycelia Academy (Link: https://mycelia-academy.org/ ) created the Pasteurized Substrate Production Masterclass: (Link: https://mycelia-academy.org/courses-abroad/pasteurization-production-masterclass/) not to teach recipes, but to teach biological understanding and industrial decision-making.

Researchers at the University of Vienna are developing "mycomining": using fungi to extract rare earth elements from contaminated industrial sites and waste materials

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