Mushrooms: The Key to Sustainable Fashion and Technology

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Mushrooms: The Key to Sustainable Fashion and Technology
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Researchers from Newcastle University and Northumbria University have found that the root-like threads produced by many fungi have the potential to be used as a biodegradable, wearable material that's also able to repair itself. They produced a skin from branching filaments known as hyphae, which together weave into a structure called a mycelium.

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