Fungi are almost everywhere - in the air you breathe, the soil you walk on, we eat them and yes, they do also live inside of us. For industrial biotechnology, fungi like yeast are commonly used ...

Chopping down trees and processing the wood isn’t the most efficient or environmentally friendly way to make furniture or building materials. Scientists at MIT have now made breakthroughs in a process ...

Microbial growth is everywhere. So can we use it to our benefit? Using the Caulobacter crescentus bacterium, researchers have engineered microbes that grow in slimy colonies and self-assemble as ...

SCIENCE FICTION GROWING YOUR OWN BUILDING MATERIALS TO CONSTRUCT A COLONY ON MARS. BUT THE OUT OF THIS WORLD IDEA IS BEING RESEARCH RIGHT HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LAB. KETV NEWSWATCH 7 ...