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- dustfingerI wonder if there is a health hazard wearing this due to breathing in spores or toxins released into the air? Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin? Very interesting none the less. I have imagined humans making living clothes for a long time, so it is nice to see that idea materialize.
- AlanYxThe claim in the article that saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) naturally produced the deep blue color in the butterfly example is not actually true, although it's a gorgeous effect.These are genetically engineered variants of brewer's yeast designed to produce pigments.
- funkygibbonI would buy one, but I don’t think I have mushroom in my wardrobe for it.
- juancnHow does it smell though?
- kxjwidjwjdjMr Stamets (both real AND fictional) must be proud as heck!
- hercyniumCordyceps, huh? An interesting choice! And ironically the subject of an article on Ars Technica that just dropped...https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/parasitic-zombie-fun...
- andaiCould they make a house out of this?
- sajithdilshanThis would turn into a mould infested nightmare
- josefritzishereIs there an adjective for something that's nifty but also gross?
- chrisjj> nutrient solution is applied over a hole, along with a small patch of fresh fungusSo, not repair itself.
- LoganDarkIs there a possibility of the organisms escaping the material and infesting the environment? That's what I would worry about with mycelium.
- bamboozledResearchers in China have created a textile from living mycelium that is self-cleaning, near self-repairing and can be coloured or made UV protective through "plug-and-play" add-ons of different fungi or yeast.near self-repairing
- meindnochPretty disgusting tbh.
- londons_exploreI put a load of washing on, then ended up in hospital for a year.On return, the contents of the washing machine were pretty much this.
- onlypassingthruNeat. Wearing some hibernating Cordyceps clothes seems like a good way to speedrun some life-imitates-art The Last of Us gain of function research.