Scientists from Ohio State claim to have turned edible fungi into working RAM, using dehydrated shiitake mushrooms to function as organic memristors

Here's the actual journal article. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0328965

They didn't make RAM. But they tried to see if this fungus could act as a memristor. A memristor is one of the four fundamental electrical components, along with resistors, capacitors, and inductors.

One of those tests was a volatile memory test. Think of it more like storing a single bit vs with RAM where you have an addressable space of values you can set and read.

With the price of RAM as high as it is these computers could be as fungible as money.

M U S H R A M

Far out. I can grow my own RAM.

Good news everyone!