Could Hiro Diapers’ plastic-eating mushrooms be the answer to so many disposable diapers piling up in landfills?

BY JENNIFER CONRAD, SENIOR WRITER @JENNIFERCONRAD

Hiro founders Tero Isokauppila and Miki Agrawal. Photography by Mary Kang

At 10 a.m. on a sunny May morning, I arrived at a nondescript office building just north of the University of Texas at Austin’s campus. The building was home to medical clinics and biotech companies, and when I opened the door to a darkened second-floor office, I worried I was in the wrong place. But I immediately spotted Miki Agrawal, wearing her signature fedora, sitting at a table awaiting my arrival. 

Agrawal and a dove. Her lab manager, Sarah Larocca, discovered the injured bird on her way to work. The dove was in a carrier, and she planned to bring it to a sanctuary after work. “I love the feminine energy in here,” says Agrawal, 46, marveling at the scene around her, as I joined her at the table. “It feels really good to work with scientists who are saving doves.” 

The lights were off for the sake of the dove, but sunlight streamed through windows on one side of the room. Larocca works in a lab on the........

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