Corteva Agriscience has formed a joint venture with pharmaceutical company Hexagon Bio to develop natural crop protection products using fungal compounds

Researchers have created the first large-scale dataset for training AI to analyse mycelium growth patterns, comprising over 20,000 high-resolution images of four fungal species.

Researchers have successfully transformed liquid waste from carrot processing into high-protein fungal mycelium, achieving yields of up to 15 grammes per litre with protein content reaching 31%

Penicillium has been named Microbe of the Year 2026, recognising its role in producing antibiotics that have saved millions of lives since 1928. Industrial strains now produce hundreds of thousands of times more penicillin than the original discovery, with global production reaching 50,000 tonnes annually

This is the fourth article in a six-part series exploring critical themes shaping the future of functional mushrooms, in partnership with Finnish biotech company KÄÄPÄ Biotech . For centuries, chaga has been one of nature’s most powerful secrets. In the Nordics, in the cold, on slow-growing birch forests, this charcoal-black conk develops over many years. Throughout that time it accumulates the bioactive compounds that have made it an essential part of traditional medicine ac