Fungi-biotech

20/12/2019

A new alternative to the process of making animal leather, one process that causes damages to the environment and human health.

Animal skin is an excellent material, but the tanning process of leather causes significant chromium emissions that are damaging to the environment and human health. Synthetic leathers also burden the environment and fail to match the quality and durability of animal leather. Therefore, new bio-base...

20/12/2019

"...creative solutions to making a home off planet Earth -- like "growing" houses out of fungi or using bacteria to help generate electricity."

What would it take to settle Mars? In a talk about the future of space exploration, Lynn Rothschild reviews the immense challenges to living elsewhere in the universe and proposes some bold, creative solutions to making a home off planet Earth -- like "growing" houses out of fungi or using bacteria....

20/12/2019

Just a friendly reminder of the importance of Fungi in the production of one of the most important sauces in asian culture ;)