Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...

Imagine if a ripped leather jacket could repair itself instead of needing to be replaced. This could one day be a reality, if the jacket is fashioned from fungus, researchers report April 11 in ...

A team of Vancouver academics is fusing the fields of microbiology and architecture to create living building materials made out of oyster mushrooms and other edible fungi. They say their research ...

Normally if a jacket rips you'd either need to repair it or eventually replace it, but what if the jacket could repair itself? This is exactly what scientists have been looking at in a new study on ...