technology

Grow-It-Yourself mycelium form

A mycelium-and-substrate mixture packed into a plastic growth-form mold that colonizes into the mold's shape over 1-2 weeks, then is dried to halt growth and lock in the final shape.

Where it's used

Bio-building kits for children
Children's construction and model-building toys built around a biological material or biological structure — GROWN.bio's Grow-It-Yourself mycelium shape kits, Bioblo's honeycomb-profile biocomposite building blocks, Thames & Kosmos' biology and architectural model-building sets, and 3D Molecular Designs' Cell Modeling Kit — distinct from conventional plastic building-toy brands and from the CRISPR/DNA-extraction lab-skills kits elsewhere in this catalog.
education-workforce 7 min