As an avid gardener and (very) amateur cook, learning how to grow edible mushrooms at home seemed like a no-brainer. Little did I know how little I knew. I ordered fungi guru Paul Stamets’ definitive ...

If all living organisms on Earth evolved from a single cell 3.5 billion years ago, it stands to reason that they’re a lot alike. And, scientists have noted that fungi are characteristically even ...

Fungi are almost everywhere - in the air you breathe, the soil you walk on, we eat them and yes, they do also live inside of us. For industrial biotechnology, fungi like yeast are commonly used ...

Scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are experimenting with fungal mycelium to help support life on the Moon and Mars. Last week, NASA rolled out a concept it calls ...

As fashion designers look for alternatives to leather, growing mycelium – or fungi-based – ‘leather’ substitutes using a new paste media has opened up the possibility of growing this bio-fabricated ...

Ask meat eaters and most would likely agree that one of the carnivorous delights non-meat-eaters are most missing out on is bacon. Salty, smoky, chewy, delectable on sandwiches, crumbled up in recipes ...

What is a mushroom, exactly? Ask the average consumer and they’ll likely reply that mushrooms are short stems with lid-like caps on the top, found in the produce section as well as growing in the wild ...