Tag: fungi

University of Washington researchers use coffee grounds with fungi spores for 3D printing

University of Washington researchers use coffee grounds with fungi spores for 3D printing

March 3, 2025 |

In Washington state, a University of Washington team developed a new system for turning coffee grounds into a paste, which they use to 3D print objects: packing materials, pieces of a vase, a small statue. They inoculate the paste with Reishi mushroom spores, which grow on the objects to form that mycelial skin. The skin […]

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Berkeley Lab researchers transform bacterium to optimize crops and fungi conversion into biofuels

Berkeley Lab researchers transform bacterium to optimize crops and fungi conversion into biofuels

November 12, 2024 |

In California, the ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants, including some economically important crops, but its ability to insert its own DNA into host plants is what makes it both a pest to farmers […]

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