Dutch food tech company The Protein Brewery has closed an €18M Series B extension, bringing its total funding to over €70M, days after securing the first EU novel food

These fungi work through complementary mechanisms, including competing for space on pod tissue, producing antimicrobial metabolites, directly parasitising pathogens, and priming the cacao plant's own immune defences.

Groundwork BioAg issues first verified carbon credits under Verra's VM0042 in the US. What the Rootella Carbon milestone means for soil CDR markets.

A single dose of psilocybin reduced nerve pain in mice for several weeks and made the common painkiller gabapentin significantly more effective, according to new research from the University of Reading.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have 3D printed living structures from Ganoderma lucidum mycelium that continue to grow and self-assemble functional particles after printing. The fungus captures nano- and micro-particles from its liquid growth medium, with carbon black particles boosting electrical signal amplitude by roughly nine times compared to non-functionalized samples. The approach could open a new class of living materials capable of sensing, environment

Researchers have confirmed the enzyme caffeylpyruvate hydrolase (CPH) completes the recycling loop in the fungal bioluminescence pathway, sustaining continuous light emission in fungi. The enzyme breaks down oxyluciferin into caffeic and pyruvic acids, allowing the fungus to recycle light-producing molecules while potentially recovering some of the energy used in the process. The findings, published in The FEBS Journal, could enable the design of brighter, more efficient self

Researchers at the University of Bath have shown that Trametes versicolor, commonly known as turkey tail, can grow through waste oriented strand board (OSB) and convert it into a thermally insulating composite material.

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.

Ecovative's Mycelium Chips Perform Machine Learning Tasks in DARPA-Funded Study