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Wild mushrooms may be developed into anti-cancer drugs
Seemingly ordinary macrofungi, that is, wild mushrooms commonly parasitic on tree trunks, may actually be developed into antibacterial and even anti-cancer drugs. A research team composed of four lecturers and their students from the School of Chemical and Life Sciences at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore has, over the past two years, classified and studied more than 400 species of local wild mushrooms, and found that two of them contain anti-cancer compounds and 30 contain antibacterial compounds. At present, they have successfully identified the chemical structure of one wild mushroom with anti-cancer properties, and confirmed
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Shiitake mushrooms may be used to produce fuel, with promising prospects
People are all too familiar with the shiitake mushroom as a delicious food, but a latest study in the United States may give this edible fungus a new mission -- one day in the future, shiitake mushrooms may gradually leave people's dining tables and kitchens and find their way into people's car fuel tanks. According to reports, the shiitake mushroom, this delicious fungus, usually grows on felled trees in forests. It breaks down the complex organic matter in wood into sugars and uses them as nutrients to sustain its own growth. At present, the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture
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