Researchers have cracked the code behind how plants make mitraphylline, a rare cancer-fighting molecule. Their discovery of ...

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They've provided treatments for a wide range of ...

The process by which fungi synthesize some of their most potent compounds has remained unclear for many years. This is especially true of cyclopentachromone, a key building block in fungal products ...

Two researchers in a laboratory setting: doctoral student Tuan-Anh Nguyen on the left and Dr. Thu-Thuy Dang examining plant ...

Scientists have found how plants produce mitraphylline, a rare spirooxindole alkaloid with anti-cancer properties. This ...

Two distantly related groups of mushrooms take radically different routes to producing psilocybin, a mind-bending molecule.