Great news for those who get excited about beautiful leather handbags and have been looking for a perfect Fall bag, functional, perfect for work AND vegan, sustainable and guilt free. Bolt Threads, ...

Bolt Threads, the maker of Microsilk, has introduced its second material–Mylo–the world’s first commercially available imitation leather grown from mycelium, the root structure of a mushroom. To do it ...

Unlike Microsilk, there’s no fermentation or yeast involved in the making of Mylo. Instead, it’s grown in large, environmentally-controlled warehouses, much like how the mushrooms you buy at the ...

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Good news for the cruelty-free crowd: A popular mushroom-root-derived leather alternative is now verifiably vegan. Bolt Threads revealed Wednesday that its Mylo material has sailed through Eurofins ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...