Edible mycelium bioengineered for enhanced nutritional value and sensory appeal using a modular synthetic biology toolkit - Nature Communications
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Fungi have the potential to produce sustainable foods for a growing population, but current products are based on a small number of strains with inherent limitations. Here, the authors develop genetic tools for an edible fungus and engineer its nutritional value and sensory appeal for alternative meat applications.
  • maketotaldestr0i@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    9 months ago

    We are just becoming the Ants. In 3000 years we will be eusocial subterrainian dwelling mole rat leafcutter ant hybrids. Morlocks going up to hunt the occasional Eloi

    • eleitl@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m not quite seeing the point for these products since delicious fresh mushrooms can be grown at home from substrate that mostly doesn’t use human food as components. When I retire I might pick up growing food mushrooms as a useful hobby, along with a conventional food forest/kitchen garden.

      • maketotaldestr0i@lemm.eeMEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        You should start looking now for used lab equipment like Laminar flowhood and pressure sterilizers. Over time I built out a quite decent lab from things being discarded from colleges and hospitals that junk dealers bought for cheap and had no market for. i got a $10000 laminar flowhood for $800 and probably could have got it cheaper but i had to ship the 300kilo beast and that was half the cost. i just contact the junk dealers and haggle with them quite a bit. i dont know if european/german hospitals and schools are inefficient as in usa where they just periodically rip everything out and buy new stuff for no reason, auctioning off perfectly fine equipment for pennies on the dollar. I used to see sealed cheap surplus soviet era NBC and HEPA filters for sale you could build homebrew laminar flow system out of too, but haven’t looked in a long time.