Koji fungus, Aspergillus oryzae, has shaped East Asian cuisine and culture through centuries of fermentation. Today, it is being rediscovered for its nutritional, functional, and industrial potential ...

London (CNN) — It’s a problem as intractable as the riddle of the Sphinx: How do you make a vegan cheese that people actually want to eat? Formo, a Berlin-based biotechnology company, thinks it has ...

Using ancient koji on steak sounds strange, but the results are unreal. The fungus breaks down the meat just enough to make ...

The thick hypha (12 µm wide) emerged by branching from the thin hyphae (4 µm wide). The nuclei were visualized using histone-GFP. These findings offer fundamental insights into how cell volume and ...

These fungus-based innovations are breaking the mold. Scientists are making environmentally-conscious food out of fungi, and, according to a new study, a particular kind of mold can be modified and ...

Scientists have created a burger out of genetically modified "mold." As veganism becomes more popular, so are animal-free products—and one of the most promising sources to create this food from is ...