The Fungal Conservation Pledge, launched by Chile and the United Kingdom in 2024, has now been signed by 17 countries. Also, recommendations from two UN biodiversity scientific advisory meetings have ...

Indian food regulator FSSAI has issued an approval letter for BMC Ingredients' Rhiza mycelium, making India the fourth market ...

Mycoprotein production in India gets a boost as Dhampur Bio Organics adopts Planetary's BioBlocks, using sugar and molasses.

Utah State University researchers led by Erika Espinosa-Ortiz have received a $900,000 grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to test whether fungal networks use electrical activity to sense and respond ...

UK fermentation firm Mycofeast has acquired Daisy Lab, a New Zealand startup that makes cow-free whey proteins, of which bovine lactoferrin is the most advanced. Daisy Lab uses precision fermentation, ...

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde found that wheat bran and oat additives gave living Pleurotus ostreatus beechwood composites the highest mean peak compressive stress, at 29.77 and 31.45 ...

Dutch precision fermentation startup Those Vegan Cowboys has been awarded a €1.2M subsidy to lead a consortium developing sports nutrition products from its animal-free casein. The project will study ...

The ColorFun project, led by MNEXT, has planned a larger-scale fermentation of a blue fungal dye and is preparing production of orange dyes. The dyes are made by fungi through fermentation of biobased ...

Belgian contract manufacturer Zymofix will build its first industrial production site in Deinze, a €6 million facility funded partly by a Series A round led by First Imagine! The plant will use the ...