Article in partnership with Apollo Safety a food safety and quality consultancy working with  founders and operators in the food-tech and fermentation industry as they launch and scale. Fermentation-based FoodTech is no longer confined to the lab bench and is becoming an industry in its own right. By the end of 2024, more than 160 companies were developing biomass, precision, and other fermentation approaches for alternative proteins, attracting significant capital despite

Want to know the secret to growing great mushrooms? Learn to cook first. Not for yourself, but for your mycelium. That's how the team at Mycelia Academy describes substrate production: less like following a lab protocol, more like preparing a carefully planned and nutritious meal. Sure, there are formulas, temperatures, and recipes involved. But ask the instructors, and they'll tell you it's really about understanding what your mycelium needs to thrive, a diet that blends pr

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

Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. The Fungi Foundation  has released updated ethical guidelines specifically designed for ethnomycological research, marking the first framework dedicated exclusively to human-fungal knowledge systems The 2025 version emphasises that scientists must serve communities, incorporating more Latin American voices and highlighting cross-sector collaboration between academia, civil society, and Indigenous groups Successfully applied with

Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. Analysis of 133 patent filings between 2019-2024 shows mushroom-derived compounds targeting 14 therapeutic areas, with anticancer applications representing the largest cluster at 24 patents Ganoderma and Phellinus genera feature most prominently across filings, with Korea (43 patents), China (39), and the USA (27) leading global patenting activity Global medicinal mushroom market  projected to reach $59.41 billion by 2031 at 8.2%