Researchers at the University of Maine have combined mushroom mycelium with wood-derived cellulose to create a biodegradable food packaging material that resists both water and oil.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, found in over 75% of plant species, are being disrupted by warmer winters and reduced snowpack, leaving plants less able to absorb nutrients.

Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. Researchers have reimagined the traditional South Asian jaali screen using mycelium-based composites, creating a bio-based façade system called the bio-jaali. Dynamic building energy simulations for New Delhi show the bio-jaali can reduce peak indoor temperatures by up to 14.8°C and cut annual cooling energy demand by more than 50%. The material absorbs up to 17.2% of its weight in moisture while remaining dimensionally stable, e

Inner Mongolia startup ZhongGu Junchuang is building a 43,000 sq ft mycelium facility in Chengdu, backed by around $22 million in government support.

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.

Pathogenic fungi differ from harmless relatives not in genes they possess, but in how efficiently they produce proteins for fat metabolism

Researchers have discovered that fungi's ability to transform from harmless yeast into deadly filaments depends on a metabolic circuit linking sugar breakdown to sulphur amino acid production

The UAMH Centre for Global Microfungal Biodiversity at the University of Toronto (home to nearly 12,000 living fungal specimens from over 3,200 species) was at risk of being shipped overseas due to lack of funding, until a $1-million donation from the Weston Family Foundation secured its future for at least five years.

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.