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Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

78 points · 47 comments · speckx

AlanYx · 1786039689 · focus · HN ↗
The claim in the article that saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) naturally produced the deep blue color in the butterfly example is not actually true, although it's a gorgeous effect.
These are genetically engineered variants of brewer's yeast designed to produce pigments.
1. Forgeties79 · 1786040615 · focus · HN ↗
  Wow you weren’t kidding that’s a beautiful color
  1. inigyou · 1786043011 · focus · HN ↗
    You can buy this color for 3€/meter at any weekend fabric market.
    bofadeez · 1786045400 · focus · HN ↗
    Fable could research it and come up with a list of vendors for you.
    Have you tried Fable? It can do everything you can do better.

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