{"id":224082,"date":"2025-10-27T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/living-computers-powered-by-mushrooms"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:02:24","slug":"living-computers-powered-by-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/living-computers-powered-by-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"Living computers powered by mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-computers-powered-by-mushrooms.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mushrooms are known for their toughness and unusual biological properties, qualities that make them attractive for bioelectronics. This emerging field blends biology and technology to design innovative, sustainable materials for future computing systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning Mushrooms Into Living Memory Devices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The Ohio State University recently discovered that edible fungi, such as shiitake mushrooms, can be cultivated and guided to function as organic memristors. These components act like memory cells that retain information about previous electrical states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mushrooms are known for their toughness and unusual biological properties, qualities that make them attractive for bioelectronics. This emerging field blends biology and technology to design innovative, sustainable materials for future computing systems. Turning Mushrooms Into Living Memory Devices Researchers at The Ohio State University recently discovered that edible fungi, such as shiitake mushrooms, can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}