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 ...

Bolt Threads is one of the top innovators in materials science-driven fashion fabrications, but its ambition to create sustainable and cruelty-free alternatives to leather and produce scalable spider ...

Bolt Threads is the biotech company best known for its Microsilk, a synthetic spider silk that’s made through fermentation with just water, sugar and engineered yeast. It’s completely sustainable, and ...

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 ...

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. This fibre, known as ...

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 ...

There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything, from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you. Lab-made leather replacements will soon join ...