The biodegradable, self-cleaning fabric made from living caterpillar fungus
The sustainable fashion industry has spent years trying to reduce harm: less water, fewer synthetic chemicals, more recycled material. A research team at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology went in a different direction. They grew the fabric from a living organism. The material comes from Cordyceps militaris, a fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine that naturally forms hyphae, fine threadlike filaments that weave into dense networks. Researchers cultivated it into small pellets,
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