Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. MycoWorks is shutting its South Carolina biomanufacturing plant and transitioning from mycelium cultivation to processing third-party mycelium with its proprietary Rei-Tan™ tanning technology The company's latest Rei-Tan™ innovation increases mycelium tensile strength from approximately 4 MPa to 18 MPa addressing mechanical performance limitations that hindered leather substitution The strategic shift responds to capital scarcity

Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. Researchers at Purdue University engineered textiles combining Ganoderma sessile mycelium with cellulose fibres, achieving water contact angles up to 139° and tensile strength increases of 6× in nonwoven materials and 56% in woven cotton The semi-interpenetrating network leverages hydrophobins on aerial mycelium for water resistance whilst maintaining breathability. Life cycle assessment demonstrates 54% lower ecosystem impact,

Article in partnership with Reshape Biotech , a Danish company that develops advanced lab automation robots and a cloud-based AI platform to accelerate biological research and development. Most readers here will know mycelium as a capable, adaptable builder of structures. In forest soils it colonises particulate matter, threads itself into gaps, and stabilises the whole. Visibuilt ’s work takes that familiar behaviour and applies it to a long‑standing industrial material: mi

In a timber structure on the outskirts of Tallinn, fungi are once again demonstrating their potential to reshape how buildings are insulated. The PAKK Pavilion, a collaboration between materials company Myceen and EKA PAKK , the timber research centre at the Estonian Academy of Arts, is putting mycelium-based insulation to the test in real-world conditions. Credits: Myceen A Natural Solution to Industrial Waste Mycelium, the thread-like root system of fungi, has long intrigu

Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. Artist Sam Shoemaker  successfully paddled a 12-foot kayak constructed from Ganoderma polychromum  mycelium composites across the Catalina Channel in California, covering 26 miles in 12 hours The artist just made all of his mycelium composite research open access . The project required nine weeks of incubation inside a fiberglass form, with the final structure weighing 106 pounds and shrinking 20% during the drying process When a