• WHERE I WORK

I create buildings from mushroom components

Mtamu Kililo is standing in the storage yard , surrounded by bags of natural fibers, at the MycoTile headquarters in Nairobi.

Mtamu Kililo is the chief executive of MycoTile in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng for Nature

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Nature 639, 538 (2025)

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