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 ...

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 ...

In April, the startup Bolt Threads, which develops plant-based fibers like genetically engineered spider silk, debuted a new material called Mylo. Using mycelium, the surprisingly durable root ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Frank Fiedler, head of one of Germany’s oldest tanneries, feels threatened by the surging popularity of plant-based and fungal leather alternatives, he isn’t showing it. “If these new materials are ...

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 ...