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  • Image: Antoni Gandia

    Mycelium stock

    Petri dishes containing mushroom cultures on PDA
  • potato dextrose agar
  • mycelium stock
  • preservation
  • ganoderma
  • lentinus
  • stock
  • mycelium
  • fungi
  • pda
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  • Mushroom
  • Biology
  • Genetics
  • conservation protocol Antoni Gandia

    Conservation of germplasm

    by Philip G. Miles (2004)

    There has been much concern in recent years about decreases in natural resources and the steady diminishment of untouched natural land. With the encroachment on this ever-decreasing amount of...

  • Mycelium insulation panels

    First experiments

    This mycelium panel was made out of wheat husks and Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) as biological binding agent, grown for three weeks at 25ºC and 85% of relative humidity.

  • Mushrooms DIY

    Free mushroom cultivation manuals

    A compendium of manuals, articles and printed material on mushroom cultivation techniques

  • Psilocybe cubensis

    The magic mushroom

    Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin . Commonly called shrooms, magic mushrooms, golden tops, cubes, or gold caps, it...

  • Mycoinsulation project

    Development of mycelium-based panels for the insulation of a protected wooden barn of Amsterdam.

    •The mycelium has to be grown on agricultural waste or forestry by-products. •The new material should be cost-efficient and not petrochemical dependent. •It should meet the thermal and noise...

  • Substrate

    Nutritious & Delicious food for Mushrooms!

    Substrate is the surface from which mycelium and mushrooms can grow.

  • Clean Room

    Laboratory Installation

    In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#2/3 Manuel De Landa 1 Jan 1995

    Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?

    How do homes happen? Are they planned, as we have intuitively tended to believe, or is the process a more messy one? Drawing on biological, cognitive and economic models, De Landa believes that the...

  • Fresh improvements to panel growing

    After reviewing our previous panel experiments' highs and lows, we've started 4 new panels with some (hopefully) positive changes to our procedure.

  • Rupert Sheldrake

    And the morphic fields

    After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College, working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship. He investigated auxin

  • Fungi Mutarium

    A prototype for turning plastic into edible fungi

    The mycelium of some fungi is capable of growing on and even digesting plastics. This fact triggered Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger from Livin Studio to start the research and design project...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Dirk Van Weelden 1 Jan 1998

    De Landa

    A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History

    This long-awaited book by Manuel DeLanda bears an imposing title for its three hundred pages plus notes. Is it meant as a joke? No. Does it have to do with some childrens or MTV history of the...

  • Report: a visit to CNC

    One of the largest mushroom substrate producers in the world

    What brings horse manure, an R&D director, a designer and a construction graduate together? That’s right, mushroom growing! A tour of the facilities of CNC, the largest (indoor) mushroom substrate...

  • Mushrooms are taking over the Dutch media

    “Scientists, designers and dreamers are working on a revolution”.

    For the last couple of months Motherboard, the technological arm of Vice have been on board to interview designers, scientists and mycelium experts about their work with fungi. The result is...

  • Growing the first panels

    The success and strife of convincing mushrooms to grow on waste.

  • Imagining an Exhibition

    Designing the process and exhibition of the Myco Insulation project.

  • The synthetic kingdom (en)

  • Book: José van Dyck 11 Mar 1995

    Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent

    Debating the New Reproductive Technologies

    Jose Van Dyck sketches a map of the public debate on new reproductive technologies as it has evolved in the USA and Britain since 1978.

  • Agar Petri Dish Preparation for Growing Mushrooms

    Agar medium recipes

    The first phase of mushroom cultivation is the isolation of a pure culture of mycelium. These cultures are grown in petri dishes, with a medium (food) for the mycelium to digest. Here are some...

  • The magic of nature

    Growing mushrooms in fast motion

    Two time-lapse videos of mushroom growth in nature.

  • Margarita and the Mycelium Factory

    My visit to the Ecovative Design headquarters

    Finding myself on the other side of the ocean, I went to visit Ecovative Design, a sustainable materials company in upstate New York. Ecovative is the birth place of the myco-material that sparked...

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