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.
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde found that wheat bran and oat additives gave living Pleurotus ostreatus ...
A bioRxiv preprint reports that classic psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin and mescaline) increased the number of "gateway" ...
The ColorFun project, led by MNEXT, has planned a larger-scale fermentation of a blue fungal dye and is preparing production ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers at NTU Singapore, working with Ichimasa Kamaboko, raised the protein content of okara up 30% dry weight using oyster mushroom myceliumX. The team used solid-state fermentation, in which a ...
The word "funga" entered the Cambridge Dictionary in July 2026, marking a turning point in mainstream recognition of fungi as a distinct kingdom of life alongside flora and fauna. Fourteen countries ...
The UK government has classified the golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) as a high-risk invasive species following confirmed sightings in English woodland. The fungus, linked to ...
New York-based C16 Biosciences has launched a precision-fermented cocoa butter equivalent under its Palmless brand, marking the startup's first entry into food ingredients after establishing itself in ...