I’m holding a small square piece of what looks like leather. The front of the fabric feels like leather, soft and pebbled; it even smells slightly like leather. But the material, called Mylo, is made ...

A Bay Area biotech company hopes so. Bolt Threads is the Emeryville next-generation materials company founded by UCSF and UC Berkeley scientists. Their latest product is Mylo, an alternative leather ...

Bolt Threads recently announced it would stop producing Mylo. But that doesn’t mean the end of mushroom leather as an industry. Less than two years later, production of Mylo has been paused ...

When a spider gets scared and drops down on a line, it releases a liquid stored in a little gland inside its abdomen that is spun as its dropping, instantly turning into a fibre. 20 years on, this ...

Biotech startups Bolt Threads, Ecovative and Zvnder have discovered how to make the most of mycelium — creating high-quality, sustainable versions of ubiquitous materials such as leather. The negative ...