Mycelium materials, fungal computing, biofabrication, and mushroom sustainability.
TL;DR A recent Perspective highlights how mushroom‑based biotech startups translate advances in mycology, biotechnology, and biofabrication into real products. By mapping these translational pathways, the authors show that mushrooms offer more than a scientific resource—they form a cross‑sectoral model of bioinspired innovation. The piece argues that this model can drive sustainable industry and improve human…
TL;DR Scientists have built computer models—digital twins—of fungal mycelium that can forecast how the living network will behave as a logic gate. By training machine‑learning regressors on simulated electrical responses, they could recover key hidden biophysical parameters with high accuracy. When applied to real, small fungal specimens, the method cut waveform mismatch by 96 % and…
TL;DR Scientists grew a network of shiitake mushroom mycelium and wired it to electrodes, creating a living memristor—a component that changes resistance when electricity passes through it. The fungal memristor could be trained like a neural network, retained its function after drying, and operated reliably up to 5.85 kHz. This shows that fungi can serve…