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AlanYx 34 minutes ago [-]
The 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.
Forgeties79 18 minutes ago [-]
Wow you weren’t kidding that’s a beautiful color
dustfinger 30 minutes ago [-]
I 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.
svachalek 29 minutes ago [-]
It seems telling that none of the photos show anyone wearing it.
funkygibbon 1 minutes ago [-]
I would buy one, but I don’t think I have mushroom in my wardrobe for it.
juancn 37 minutes ago [-]
How does it smell though?
ComputerPerson 32 minutes ago [-]
Most people associate mushrooms and fungi with the smell of their substrate; they commonly don't have a strong smell themselves
I doubt it has a smell stronger than the wearer
edit: this is a bad take, upon further research
_whiteCaps_ 29 minutes ago [-]
Chanterelles smell great. I would wear something that smelled like that.
Pine mushrooms, not so much.
andai 18 minutes ago [-]
Could they make a house out of this?
chrisjj 50 minutes ago [-]
> nutrient solution is applied over a hole, along with a small patch of fresh fungus
So, not repair itself.
dustfinger 37 minutes ago [-]
To be fair it only claimed "near self-repairing".
cestith 28 minutes ago [-]
One could think of it as mostly self-repairing with some outside encouragement.
soiltype 29 minutes ago [-]
The headline is more ambitious, that's probably what they meant
chrisjj 17 minutes ago [-]
Nope. "Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself".
andai 17 minutes ago [-]
Does the fresh fungus need to be genetically identical? I read something about mycelial nuclei in high school and it was weird.
josefritzishere 41 minutes ago [-]
Is there an adjective for something that's nifty but also gross?
sdellis 12 minutes ago [-]
Blursed!
kibwen 22 minutes ago [-]
I'm not sure it's any more objectively gross than normal textile materials. Imagine you lived in a hairless, furless world where nothing like wool was a thing, and then suddenly we discovered a weird fluffy mammal that extruded long fibers out of its flesh; the people of that world might call that gross, we'd just call it ordinary.
These are genetically engineered variants of brewer's yeast designed to produce pigments.
I doubt it has a smell stronger than the wearer
edit: this is a bad take, upon further research
Pine mushrooms, not so much.
So, not repair itself.