A review published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences argues that beneficial fungi could transform sterile lunar and Martian regolith into a viable substrate for growing crops, supporting future human settlements beyond Earth.

California startup Gilly, backed by SOSV's IndieBio programme, completed its first livestock pilot in January 2026 at Trinkler Dairy in Modesto, feeding 130 cows upgraded tomato pomace for two weeks.

A landmark study published in Science has produced the first global estimate of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks, finding roughly 110 quadrillion kilometres (about 68 quadrillion miles) of living fungal threads in the top 15 centimetres of Earth's soils. Researchers from SPUN, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and more than a dozen institutions combined data from over 16,000 soil samples with robotic imaging of 300,000 individual fungal strands to build machine-learning ma

Infinite Roots Acquires Bosque Foods to Build Dual-Technology Mycelium Platform

Straw mushroom meal can replace up to 50% of soybean meal in whiteleg shrimp diets without harming growth or survival. Mushroom-derived compounds act as natural prebiotics, boosting beneficial gut bacteria and immune cell counts in shrimp. The findings point to a practical, lower-cost fungal protein alternative that could reduce aquaculture's reliance on environmentally costly feed ingredients. A Feed Industry Under Pressure Aquaculture feeds have a problem. Soybean meal, the