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Study suggests mushrooms can boost heart health and slash blood pressure
A new study has analyzed the effects of adding whole mushrooms into a person’s diet, either as a single shift or an entire dietary change with the goal of eating healthier. The researchers found new evidence that mushrooms could boost cardiometabolic health and even...
Don’t Make The Same Mistake JAXA Did
Using Mushyluv's Clone Cube Laminar Flow Hood prevents bacterial colonization on your mushroom projects. Scientists have discovered that a sample of the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after being delivered to our planet. The research shows how...
Dark Fungi Are All Around Us
If you want to discover a hidden world of new life-forms, you don’t have to scour dark caves or slog through remote rainforests. Just look under your feet. When then-graduate student Anna Rosling went to northern Sweden to map the distribution of a particular...
Lucky Lion’s Mane Find Spawns Native Fungi Cloning Project
Henry Jephson was wandering around the countryside near Bristol during a Covid lockdown when his eye was caught by the ghostly appearance of a lion’s mane mushroom, its shaggy fronds hanging across a tree trunk.
Agar Plate Pour Test July 2023
Pour tests using the Clone Cube and a sterile agar bottle. See the results mushyluv customers are raving about.
Amateur mushroom pickers should avoid AI foraging books
Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots. Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes that are being passed off as having been written by humans, with...
Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals
Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to 36 per cent of yearly global fossil fuel emissions below ground - more than China emits each year The fungi make up a vast underground network all over the planet underneath grasslands and forests, as well as roads,...
Dave Matthews Talks Mushrooms With Howard Stern
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Fungi’s out to save the forest with mushroom based meat alternatives
Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have found that substituting just 20% of beef with a fungi-based meat alternative could decrease deforestation by 50% by 2050. According to the researchers, microbial protein, as the fungi-based...
Scientists may have discovered the first antidote to the deadliest mushroom known to humans
The death cap is the deadliest mushroom known to humans. Each year, it kills an estimated 100 people and sickens thousands more. Many of its victims are unsuspecting foragers who mistake it for the edible fungi it resembles, like puffballs and paddy-straws. There is...
Can adding mushrooms to your diet help with high blood sugar levels
Now, new research revealed that adding one commonly accessible ingredient to your diet could contribute to lowering blood pressure levels—mushrooms.
Mushrooms use perspiration as a tool to stay cool
It’s not yet clear why fungi might want to stay cool. However, the discovery sheds light on a potentially fundamental aspect of fungal biology and may even have implications for human health. It is, to me, a very interesting unexplained phenomenon, said Dr. Arturo...
Mycology Is The Study of Mushrooms
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Flow hood Vs Fume hood
Flow hood vs fume hood which is the right fit for you. Both types of hoods use a constant flow of air to prevent contamination of the laboratory clean space . Fume hoods prevent hazardous substances from exiting the hood workspace, whereas laminar flow cabinets...
Mushrooms Chat About The Weather
Whether they’re hacking the brains of bugs or mining for gold, fungi are craftier than we give them credit for. Now researchers in Japan have studied how forest mushrooms communicate with each other, and found that they're mostly chatty when it rains. Ectomycorrhizal...
Mushyluv Air Scrubber Tek
Laying a foundation to prevent Trichoderma contamination.
Fungi With a Taste For Plastic May Be The Solution to The Looming Recycling Problem.
Australian scientists have successfully used backyard mould to break down one of the world’s most stubborn plastics — a discovery they hope could ease the burden of the global recycling crisis within years.
Benefits of Using a Still Air Box
The biggest benefit of using a still air box is less chance of contamination when working with sterile mushroom cultures.
Using A Laminar Flow Hood For Your Mushroom Experiments
A laminar flow hood provides a sterile environment for carrying out experiments and other activities. These hoods offer the ultimate in protection from contamination, as they maintain sterility by providing uniform air flow at a steady rate. Learn all about what makes...
What is a still air box?
What is a still air box? Think of it as a plastic shield that surrounds both your hands and the mushroom cultures you're working with. The still air box protects the interior workspace from air currents that could potentially deposit Trichoderma spores and other...
Stems vs Caps which has more mushroom magic?
A 2020 study on the Stability of psilocybin in the biomass of the psychotropic mushroom Psilocybe cubensis named "caps" the winner.... Sorta. The stipes contained approximately half the amount of tryptamine alkaloids (0.52 wt.%) than the caps (1.03 wt.%); however,...
Are humans and mushrooms related?
Recent research has shown, mushrooms are, in fact, more closely related to humans than to plants!
Sporegasm: How spores are launched from a mushroom
To spread forth and multiply, fungi — including the familiar amanita muscaria — shoot their spores into wafting breezes. A new paper published Wednesday helps explain how fungi aim the spores in the right direction. Scientists at Duke University constructed larger...
Mushroom Coffins
DUTCH STARTUP LOOP runs a factory in the city of Delft that’s unlike any other you may have visited. For one thing, as soon as you enter, the scent of mushrooms fills your nostrils like the smell of a forest after rain. If you follow your nose, you’ll arrive at a damp...