Day: September 9, 2026

mushroom coffin

Inside the Mushroom-and-Hemp Coffin Designed to Return Bodies to the Earth

Dutch company Loop Biotech’s Living Cocoon is a biodegradable coffin made from mycelium and recycled hemp fibers that can break down in roughly 45 days while helping return nutrients to the soil. The concept gained fresh attention after a 70-year-old woman named Carolyn became the first person in Australia to be buried in one. What should happen to our bodies

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CBG Protected Memory in a Schizophrenia Model. The Reason It Worked Wasn’t the One Scientists Expected.

Repeated CBG treatment prevented a long-term recognition memory deficit in male rats given MK-801, a compound used to model the cognitive impairments seen in schizophrenia. CBG did not restore the BDNF protein levels MK-801 had lowered, but it raised TrkB messenger RNA in the medial prefrontal cortex, pointing to a mechanism the researchers had not expected.

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