Japanese biotech Spiber has launched Spiber Biofoundry, a contract service offering strain engineering and fermentation manufacturing to other companies developing proteins. The service draws on the company's experience scaling its Brewed Protein materials, with fermenters ranging from one litre to more than 100,000 litres across sites in Japan and Thailand. Contract fermentation capacity at pilot and commercial scale is scarce, according to Spiber, so access to proven capaci

Researchers at NTU Singapore, working with Ichimasa Kamaboko, raised the protein content of okara to between 27.7% and 30.2% by dry weight using oyster mushroom mycelium, in a lab-scale study published in Food Chemistry: X.

Lucknow-based Arboreal Bioinnovations has closed a $24.2M Series A round led by EAAA Alternatives and Omnivore to expand manufacturing and R&D across its functional ingredient portfolio.

Researchers at Jilin Agricultural University optimised an ultrasound-assisted extraction process for Inonotus hispidus, achieving a total polyphenol yield of 25.46 mg/g, a 35.86% improvement over unoptimised conditions.

Shroom Sabha is a community-founded, community-led, non-profit festival dedicated to fungi and the many worlds they connect. Conceived by a group of mycophiles who wanted to share their fascination beyond specialist circles, it has grown into India's first and only festival devoted entirely to fungi. More than an annual event, Shroom Sabha is an attempt to cultivate a fungal culture in India—one rooted in curiosity, ecological literacy, creativity, and care. The festival is s