Toadstool footstools: Are organisms manufacturing's future?
The mycelium grows around small pieces of stalks and stems to create a bound-together material that can be molded into soft packaging for glassware or pressed into the boards used for the footstools they recently began selling. The simple stools are organic markers in ambitious efforts by researchers worldwide to commercially grow fungi, bacteria and proteins into clothing and building materials. McIntyre rapped his knuckles on one of their "myco-boards," which look and feel similar to the particle... Читать дальше...