Researchers have created the first large-scale dataset for training AI to analyse mycelium growth patterns, comprising over 20,000 high-resolution images of four fungal species.

This is the fourth article in a six-part series exploring critical themes shaping the future of functional mushrooms, in partnership with Finnish biotech company KÄÄPÄ Biotech . For centuries, chaga has been one of nature’s most powerful secrets. In the Nordics, in the cold, on slow-growing birch forests, this charcoal-black conk develops over many years. Throughout that time it accumulates the bioactive compounds that have made it an essential part of traditional medicine ac

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

The agricultural biotechnology sector is experiencing unprecedented growth. The global agricultural biotechnology market size  was valued...

“Decompose/Decompone” is an interactive augmented reality (AR) exhibit created by eco-artist Sara Dotterer in collaboration with Chris...