Mushrooms are versatile things: they belong in kitchens, in herbal medicine and, according to overseas innovators, on a construction site.

Those bare spots in your yard could be due to take-all root rot. Here's what you should know about the turf disease and how ...

Both fungal and bacterial methods worked. In fact, the bacterially mineralized scaffolds reached full mineralization in just ...

niger group. The mycelium growing from a point-inoculation of one strain on a modified Czapek solution agar (normal Czapek solution salts, but 30 per cent sucrose instead of 3 per cent ...

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day ...

Scientists have developed a remarkable new building material made from living fungus and bacteria that can repair itself for ...

Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these ...

A team of researchers has created a rigid, living material inspired by biological structures such as bone and coral, using a ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with living cells at low ...

Fungi have more to offer than meets the eye. Their thread-like cells, which grow extensively and out of sight underground like a network of roots, offer huge potential for producing sustainable, ...

reinforcing fibre-based formwork for growing a chair with mycelium, the root network of fungi. Mycelium growth binds the organic filling material together, resulting in a stiff self-supporting ...

Most notably, the time it takes for the mycelium to grow – a month to produce a tile would need some serious growing room to be commercially viable. “We’ve developed a promising eco-friendly ...