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Amid looming global food shortages, scientists are trying to transform alternative food into options that are not only sustainable but also tasty and appealing. As part of this mission, researchers at ...

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 ...

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At a Technical University of Denmark lab, researchers are exploring the potential for fungi to be used as meat and seafood replacements. Amid looming global food shortages, scientists are trying to ...